[A-List] New Berlin Conference: Pan-European Military Forces Back In Central Africa

["Tony B." <tal1@xxxxxxxxx>]

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From: Rick Rozoff
To: Stop NATO
Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2008 12:04 AM
Subject: [stopnato] New Berlin Conference: Pan-European Military Forces Back 
In Central Africa


[Several African nations are well-acquainted with
Brussels-linked European military forces after the
Berlin Conference of 1884-85, at which representatives
of fourteen European countries and the United States
divided up Central Africa, the effects of which
continue to plague Congo, Rwanda and Burundi.
Regarding Portugal: Mozambique, Angola, Guinea-Bissau,
Sao Tome and Principe and Cape Verde experienced five
hundred years of Lisbon's colonial domination.]

http://www.rte.ie/news/2008/0125/chad.html

RTE News (Ireland)
January 25, 2008

Irish commander arrives in Chad

The commander of the Army's elite Ranger wing has
arrived in Chad in advance of the Monday's expected
go-ahead for the EU mission there.

The leader of the Rangers arrived in the capital
N'Djamena this morning and is accompanied by a Defence
Forces engineer and two ordnance NCOs.

They are making initial preparations for the arrival
there next weekend of 50 specialist Irish troops.

Next Monday in Brussels the mission commander, Irish
General Pat Nash, is expected to outline his plans to
the General & External Relations Council of the EU.

Formal approval for the mission is expected at the
meeting.

The planned mission has been plagued by delays.

When their camp near the Sudanese border is ready in
mid-March, the main body of 350 Irish soldiers will
join the 3,700-strong mission.

The peacekeeping force is being sent to Chad....
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http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-01/25/content_7493506.htm

Xinhua News Agency (China)
January 26, 2008

Portugal to join EU peacekeeping mission in Africa


LISBON - Portugal's army has been given the go ahead
to join the European Union (EU)'s peacekeeping mission
in Africa.

A government statement on Thursday said Lisbon will
send 30 soldiers in addition to a C-130 military plane
to Chad and the Republic of Central Africa in late
February for a two-month mission.

The Portuguese troops will protect refugees in the two
African countries and assist the international
humanitarian efforts in Sudan's Darfur, the statement
said.

The EU earlier agreed to deploy 3,500 peacekeeping
troops from 14 member states in Chad and Central
Africa....

The EU has been trying to reinforce ties with Africa,
Portuguese Defense Minister Nuno Severiano Teixeira
said. Relationship building with the continent was one
of the EU's diplomatic priorities set by Portugal when
it took the EU rotating presidency in the second half
of 2007.

Portugal's troop deployment was approved by the
country's supreme military decision-making body, the
Superior Council for National Defense, at the end of a
special session.


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