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 NEW YORK (AP) - The president of the African Union asked NATO on Thursday to give more support for its peacekeepers in the violence-wracked Darfur region, NATO Secretary-General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer said.
Scheffer said NATO should "answer positively and favorably" to the request from Republic of Congo President Denis Sassou Nguesso, who currently leads the African Union. He promised to take it back to officials at the alliance headquarters in Brussels.
"I promise the president of the African Union that I as secretary-general will do everything I can with the allies to see that NATO can respond positively to these kinds of requests," Scheffer said.
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