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Chinese vanguards arrive in Darfur for peacekeeping
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Source: CCTV.com | 11-25-2007 10:09
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Chinese soldiers serving with the UN peacekeeping mission to Sudan, prepare to board an aircraft at Xinzheng airport in Zhengzhou. More than 100 Chinese engineers arrived in Sudan's war-torn Darfur as part of the vanguard for a joint African Union-UN peacekeeping mission to be in place next year. (AFP photo)
Chinese engineering units have arrived in the western Sudanese region of Darfur to take part in a peacekeeping mission, jointly organized by the UN and the African Union.
The 135 Chinese peacekeepers were warmly welcomed by the UN, the AU and Sudanese officials at Niyala International Airport. They were joined by the five Chinese officers who arrived earlier this year.
Their task is essential to the increasing number of UN peacekeepers in the region.
