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UNITED NATIONS (AP) - Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warned the Security Council on Tuesday that sending U.N. peacekeepers to Chad carries "serious risks" because of the volatile situation in the central African nation and possible attacks by rebel groups.
Chadian President Idriss Deby also has expressed concerns about the deployment of a U.N. military force, he said, asking instead for the deployment of a "civilian force."
Unlike his predecessor, Ban made no recommendation on whether the council should deploy a U.N. peacekeeping force to Chad and neighboring Central African Republic to help thousands of civilians caught in local fighting and the spillover of Sudan's Darfur conflict.
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