Chad/CAR
mid-April 2007
International efforts to gain regional support for robust peacekeeping included a visit by US Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte to Sudan, Chad and Libya.
4 April 2007
Under Secretary-General John Holmes briefed the Council on the humanitarian situation in the region. Holmes suggested that, given Chad’s reluctance, alternative options would be deploying a UN mission solely in the Central African Republic for the time being, or strengthening of the Central African Economic and Monetary Community’s (CEMAC) military operation deployed in the Central African Republic (FOMUC).
10 March 2007
Chadian and Sudanese representatives reportedly met in Tehran to continue talks to normalise bilateral relations. It was reportedly agreed that an Iranian technical assistance team on regional issues would go to Chad and Sudan.
February 2007
The Secretary-General presented finalised options on a UN operation in Chad and the Central African Republic. In Libya, Chad and Sudan agreed to re-energise the Tripoli Agreement and the Central African Republic government and the Union des forces démocratiques pour le rassemblement (UFDR) signed a peace deal. Chad opposed the deployment of the UN advance mission and of an operation with a robust military contingent.
