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Article: AFRICAN UNION LOOKS TO LONG-TERM COOPERATION WITH NATO
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- March 2, 2007
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NATO issued the following press release:
The African Union Commissioner for Peace and Security, Ambassador Said Djinnit, visited NATO HQ on 2 March, the second high-level visit by an African Union official to NATO.
He met with NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer and addressed the North Atlantic Council, NATO's principal decision-making body. They discussed cooperation between NATO and the African Union, particularly NATO's support for AU efforts to bring peace to the strife-torn Darfur region of Sudan.
Long-term needs
Since July 2005 NATO has provided airlift for 24,000 African Union peacekeepers in and out of Darfur, as well training to African Union officers.
Ambassador Djinnit ...