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Sudan

Asked what was meant by the text in joint statement on Darfur saying "EU and NATO, through airlift co-ordination and training" and the phrase "we stand ready to do more", the PMOS said that the first thing was that we talked to the African Union and others about what they needed. As people would recall from Gleneagles we had committed to help create a 20,000 African Union peacekeeper force which was part of this. There was also a short-term need to implement the Darfur agreement reached last week. First and foremost we needed to speak to the African Union and today’s discussion was part of that. Asked if that meant troops, the PMOS said we should have the discussions first and then see what NATO, as a whole, could do. It would take into account people’s commitments elsewhere. Asked whether it was right to say that the shortages were in training for troops, the PMOS said that was why we were talking about creating 20,000 African peacekeepers and training was an important part of that.

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