UN Asks for Guatemalan
Troops to Sudan
The United Nations
requested troops to
Guatemala for joining
the multinational force
in the Sudanese region
of Darfur, where a peace
agreement has been
impossible to reach so
far.
Guatemalan ambassador to
the UN Jorge Skinner-Klee
confirmed the request of
the international
organization, which
seeks to form a
contingent of 20,000
soldiers and 6000
civilians to contain
killing in that African
region.
According to Skinner-Klee,
the sending of troops
would be a way of
returning the aid
Guatemala received
during the
implementation of the
peace agreements that
ended with the 36-year
internal armed conflict
(1960-1996).
The solution to Darfur
conflict is an acid test
for the also Guatemalan
Edmond Mulet, recently
appointed assistance
secretary for UN world
peace operations.
The spokesman of the
Ministry of Defense,
David Dominguez, said
that Guatemalan troops
deployed in Haiti and
the Democratic Republic
of Congo were relieved
this year.
There would be capacity
to send more troops
abroad up to 2007, said
Dominguez, but he
admitted that decisions
on that matter are taken
by the government.
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