Chad/CAR
11 September 2007
Chad formally confirmed its consent to the proposed deployments by the UN and the EU.
September 2007
Media reports noted threats from Chadian rebel groups that if the proposed EU force — and its French contigents in particular — were perceived to be taking sides they would be attacked.
early September 2007
The Secretary-General visited Chad as part of his wider efforts to advance peacekeeping plans in the region and the political process in Darfur. During the trip, a joint communiqué with the Chadian government was signed, in which N’Djamena expressed its readiness to consolidate the domestic political dialogue and to coordinate with Sudan on normalisation of regional relations.
27 August 2007
The Council adopted a presidential statement expressing readiness to authorise deployments in Chad and the Central African Republic.
17 August 2007
An agreement between the government and political opposition providing for power-sharing and wide reforms in the Chadian electoral system, to be followed by parliamentary elections in two years, was signed.
