UN General Assembly
2006

eradicate the endemic insecurity maintained by those who set up roadblocks and by the rebellion raging mainly in the north-eastern part of the country, bordering on the Sudan and Chad. The security and defence forces deployed in the back country face many difficulties — particularly logistical ones — in overcoming that phenomenon. The proliferation of small arms and light weapons in the subregion — due to the long crisis in Darfur and its effects on the Central African Republic — are hardly helping to put an end to that scourge. The Central African Republic supports the proposals made by Presidents George Bush and Jacques Chirac and by the Chairperson of the African Union, Mr. Denis Sassou Nguesso, on the positioning of United Nations troops on the border between the Central African Republic, Chad and the Sudan. In addition, since 2003, the Central African Republic, one of the seven countries in partnership with the World Bank’s Multi-country Demobilization and Reintegration Programme, has taken a new comprehensive, integrated approach that is integrative and inclusive aimed at resolving the thorny problem of