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EU say they have run out of cash for Darfur peacekeepers
2007-06-30
European Union funding for an African peacekeeping force in Darfur has run out, and the United States and Arab League should help cover the costs until a replacement force arrives, the EU's aid chief said on Friday. "At the Commission level we are dry and we cannot find any more additional resources," European Commissioner for Development and Humanitarian Aid Louis Michel told a news conference.

The Commission and EU states have given over 400 million euros ($537.8 million) to the African Union Mission in Sudan (AMIS) since it was deployed to Sudan's violent western Darfur region in 2004 to try to ease the humanitarian crisis there.

The United Nations has proposed working with the African Union to send a better-equipped force to the area, but Michel said AMIS still needed cash before the new operation started. "Other donors besides the Commission must find the resources to make the transition from the AMIS force to the African Union/United Nations hybrid force," Michel said. "I would like to call on the United States and the Arab League to contribute to financing this transition," he said.
We'll match the Arab League dollar for dollar.
Diplomats say a resolution to send the new international force could come to a vote at the U.N. Security Council next week, but that peacekeepers could take six months to deploy.
Posted by:lotp

#12  We'll match the Arab League dollar for dollar.

No, we'll match each dollar the arab league produces with a generous donation of ten cents for each and every dollar that actualy gets to the needy.(if any)
Posted by: Redneck Jim   2007-06-30 12:04  

#11  United States and Arab League

Three guesses...
Posted by: gromgoru   2007-06-30 10:56  

#10  Me and you 'zerker, I know this undiscovered little Italian place where we can be seen.
Posted by: Shipman   2007-06-30 10:01  

#9  European Union funding for an African peacekeeping force in Darfur has run out

Significant downside (_____)
No downside, lets take a lunch break ( X )
Posted by: Besoeker   2007-06-30 09:47  

#8  European Union funding for an African peacekeeping force in Darfur has run out

Significant downside (_____)
No downside, lets take a lunch break ( X )
Posted by: Besoeker   2007-06-30 09:47  

#7  The UN should have a fund raiser by selling the organs of it's staff members, starting with the Secgen. I think it'll work out great.
Posted by: Silentbrick   2007-06-30 09:35  

#6  They don't have run out of cash for the would-be genociders in West Bank and Gaza.

Posted by: JFM   2007-06-30 04:17  

#5  I'll happily throw in some cash if the UN forces would kick some ass.
Posted by: Snereck de Medici6366   2007-06-30 02:34  

#4  This is a worthwhile cause but with crude oil trading for over $70 a barrel the Arab League should pony up most of the cash.
Posted by: Grumenk Philalzabod0723   2007-06-30 01:49  

#3  Hand them the IOU they handed America for doing their share towards Western European defense for nearly 50 years.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2007-06-30 01:08  

#2  OK - what happened to my cookie? >:-(
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut   2007-06-30 00:46  

#1  Not a goddam dime. Why should be pay through the nose so the EUnichs and feel good about themselves?

Money for guns supplied to the people who are being attacked, on the other hand - open checkbook.
Posted by: Tiny Jetle6263   2007-06-30 00:45  

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