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UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The European Union and the United Nations are discussing the possibility of sending an EU peacekeeping force to Chad and Central African Republic for six months to help those affected by the spillover from the Darfur conflict, U.N. diplomats said Friday.
The U.N. Security Council discussed the idea of an interim EU force, which would be replaced by a U.N. peacekeeping force, during closed consultations following a briefing by U.N. peacekeeping chief Jean-Marie Guehenno.
The idea was raised Wednesday by French President Nicolas Sarkozy during a meeting with the EU's foreign policy chief Javier Solana, according to a report in the French Roman Catholic newspaper La Croix.
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