Chad today called for continued international aid to carry out the tasks it has taken over from a United Nations peacekeeping force to protect hundreds of thousands of refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs), as well as in dealing with the influx of Chadians fleeing Libya.
"On this point the Government is aware that this task entails a cost that it cannot finance alone," Chadian President Idriss Déby told the General Assembly on the second day of its annual general debate, referring to Chad's integrated security detachment, which at the end of last year took over the task of protecting refugees and IDPs that had previously been performed by the UN Mission in the Central African Republic and Chad (MINURCAT).
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