Deployment of EUFOR Tchad/RCA suspended

(BRUSSELS2) The deployment of the Eufor military mission in Chad and the Central African Republic will resume when circumstances permit estimated the Slovenian presidency in a press release, which followed an exceptional meeting of the Permanent Representatives of the 27 on the situation in Chad (see also: Eufor Tchad/Rca delayed or compromised?).

« The operation remains suspended until further notice. confirmed a European ambassador to our colleagues at AFP, refusing to say how long it would last. Opponents of the government of Idriss Déby have, in fact, since Thursday, January 31, started a vast offensive to take power, even penetrating into the capital N'Djamena, located in the west of the country.

N'Djamena airport is closed to all civilian flights. But military planes can continue to land there. The evacuation of most European nationals and international organizations present in the country has begun, under the protection of the French military.

(NGV)

published in Europolitics, 5 February 2008