Tuesday, February 12th, 2008
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Re: Chad president urges EU force to deploy
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Chad rebels urge EU states not to send peace troops
Mon Feb 11, 2008
N'DJAMENA (Reuters) - Chad's rebels on Monday urged European Union member states not to send peacekeeping troops to the country's east, saying the force would not be neutral because it was dominated by France.
An alliance of rebel groups said that France, which is contributing more than half of the 3,700-strong EU force (EUFOR) to be deployed in eastern Chad, had directly helped President Idriss Deby to beat off a rebel attack on the Chadian capital N'Djamena at the start of this month.
"The alliance of the armed opposition no longer believes in the neutrality of a force essentially composed of French troops and whose operational direction is carried out by France," the rebels said in a statement.
"As a result, (the alliance) immediately demands that other European countries refrain from sending their nationals in EUFOR, whose final objective is to protect the Deby regime," the statement added.
(Editing by Pascal Fletcher)
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