Chad mission shows EU is effective in giving stability - by Javier Solana
At midnight tomorrow, the European Union will officially hand over its military peacekeeping mission, operating in Chad and the Central African Republic on the borders of Darfur, to the United Nations follow-on peacekeeping mission. In this 10th anniversary of the European Security and Defence Policy, several elements of the deployment and withdrawal of EUfor mark the evolution of the policy. This mission should be judged not only on what it has achieved, but also in relation to what has been achieved in partnership with the UN, or what will be achieved by the UN as a result of EUfor’s deployment. This operation also demonstrated how the EU has become a global provider of security and stability. At the request of the UN Security Council we deployed EUfor quickly and decisively in order to stop the violence against civilians and to protect refugees and displaced persons in Chad and the Central African Republic resulting from the crisis in Darfur.
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