Close
Back
Download NATO’s broadcast-quality video content free of charge
Log in
No account?
Forgot your password?
NATO MULTIMEDIA ACCOUNT
Access NATO’s broadcast-quality video content free of charge
Create an account
Check your inbox and enter verification code
We have sent a verification code to your email address.
.
Enter the code to verify your account. This code will expire in 30 minutes.
You have successfully created your account
From now on you can download videos from our website
Subscribe to our newsletter
If you would also like to subscribe to the newsletter and receive our latest updates, click on the button below.
Reset password
Enter the email address you registered with and we will send you a code to reset your password.
Reset password
We have sent a verification code to your email address.
Enter the code to verify your account. This code will expire in 30 minutes.
Create a new password
The password must be at least 12 characters long, no spaces, include upper/lowercase letters, numbers and symbols.
Your password has been updated
Click the button to return to the page you were on and log in with your new password.
In a letter to the NATO Secretary General on 7 June, the Chairperson of the African Union, Alpha Oumar Konare, asked for enhanced NATO assistance to the African Union’s peacekeeping force in Darfur.
The Alliance is already supporting the African Union by providing airlift in and out of Darfur for its peacekeepers, and training its officers.
In the letter, Mr. Konare asks the Alliance to provide additional assistance including: certification of the troops that are earmarked for the peacekeeping force; assisting the African Union with lessons learned; and supporting the African Union in setting up a Joint Operations Centre.
Support also for UN
“That is a positive reaction to what has been discussed in the North Atlantic Council and we are now moving on with this,” NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer told reporters.
The Secretary General was speaking during a meeting of NATO Defence Ministers in Brussels, 8 June, which among other issues discussed Mr. Konare’s letter.
In a communiqué from the meeting, Ministers said that the Alliance is also considering support for a possible UN peacekeeping operation in Darfur.
“That was also discussed… in the hope that at a certain stage the very good work, the African Union has been doing and is doing at the very moment will be taken over by the United Nations,” said Mr. De Hoop Scheffer.