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110TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION S. RES. 76 

Calling on the United States Government and the international community 

to promptly develop, fund, and implement a comprehensive regional strategy in Africa to protect civilians, facilitate humanitarian operations, 

contain and reduce violence, and contribute to conditions for sustainable 

peace in eastern Chad, the Central African Republic, and Darfur, Sudan. 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

FEBRUARY 8, 2007 

Mr. FEINGOLD (for himself, Mr. SUNUNU, and Mr. LEVIN) submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations 

RESOLUTION 

Calling on the United States Government and the international community to promptly develop, fund, and implement a comprehensive regional strategy in Africa to 

protect civilians, facilitate humanitarian operations, contain and reduce violence, and contribute to conditions 

for sustainable peace in eastern Chad, the Central African Republic, and Darfur, Sudan. 

Whereas armed groups have been moving freely between 

Sudan, Chad, and the Central African Republic, committing murder and engaging in banditry, forced recruitment 

of soldiers, and gender-based violence; 


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Whereas these and other crimes are contributing to insecurity 

and instability throughout the region, exacerbating the 

humanitarian crises in these countries and obstructing efforts to end violence in the Darfur region of Sudan and 

adjacent areas; 

Whereas on January 5, 2007, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) reported that crossborder attacks by alleged Arab militias from Sudan and 

related intercommunal ethnic hostilities in eastern Chad 

had resulted in the displacement of an estimated 20,000 

people from Chad during the previous 2 weeks and posed 

a direct threat to camps housing refugees from Sudan; 

Whereas these new internally displaced Chadians have 

strained the resources of 12 UNHCR-run camps in eastern Chad that are already serving more than 100,000 internally displaced Chadians and 230,000 refugees from 

Darfur and providing humanitarian support and protection to more than 46,000 refugees from the Central African Republic in southern Chad; 

Whereas Chadian gendarmes responsible for providing security in and around the 12 UNHCR-run camps in eastern 

Chad are too few in number, too poorly equipped, and too 

besieged by Chadian rebel actions to carry out critical 

protection efforts sufficiently; 

Whereas on January 16, 2007, the United Nations’ Humanitarian Coordinator for the Central African Republic reported that waves of violence across the north have left 

more than 1,000,000 people in need of humanitarian assistance, including 150,000 who are internally displaced, 

while some 80,000 have fled to neighboring Chad or 

Cameroon; 


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Whereas in a Presidential Statement issued on January 16, 

2007 (S/PRST/2007/2), the United Nations Security 

Council reiterated its ‘‘concern about the continuing instability along the borders between the Sudan, Chad and 

the Central African Republic and about the threat which 

this poses to the safety of the civilian population and the 

conduct of humanitarian operations’’ and requested ‘‘that 

the Secretary-General deploy as soon as possible an advance mission to Chad and the Central African Republic, 

in consultation with their Governments’’; 

Whereas the Presidential Statement acknowledged ‘‘the position taken by the Central African and Chadian authorities in favor in principle of such a presence and looks forward to their continued engagement in preparing for it’’; 

Whereas a December 22, 2006, report of the United Nations 

Secretary-General (S/2006/1019) expressed a need to address the rapidly deteriorating security situation of 

Sudan, Chad, and the Central African Republic and to 

protect civilians in the border areas of Sudan, Chad, and 

the Central African Republic and recommended a robust 

mission that ‘‘would, among other tasks: facilitate the political process; protect civilians; monitor the human rights 

situation; and strengthen the local judicial, police and 

correctional system’’; 

Whereas the December 22, 2006, report went on to recommend that the force also be mandated and equipped 

to deter attacks by armed groups and react preemptively 

to protect civilians, including refugees and internally displaced persons, with rapid reaction capabilities; 

Whereas on August 30, 2006, the United Nations Security 

Council passed Security Council Resolution 1706 (2006), 

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litical, humanitarian, military and civilian police liaison 

officers in key locations in Chad, including in the internally displaced persons and refugee camps and, if necessary, in the Central African Republic; 

Whereas continuing hostilities will undermine efforts to bring 

security to the Darfur region of Sudan, dangerously destabilize volatile political and humanitarian situations in 

Chad and the Central African Republic, and potentially 

disrupt progress towards peace in southern Sudan; 

Whereas a December 2006 United Nations assessment mission report outlined possibilities for a mission in Chad, 

including a force large enough to monitor the border, 

deter attacks, and provide civilian protection; 

Whereas the United Nations Security Council has requested 

proposals for a United Nations force in Chad and the 

Central African Republic to help protect and provide humanitarian assistance to tens of thousands of civilians affected by the conflict that began in Darfur; and 

Whereas a technical assessment mission was dispatched in 

January 2007 toward that end: Now, therefore, be it 

1 Resolved, That the Senate— 

2 (1) expresses concern for the more than 

3 1,000,000 citizens of Sudan, Chad, and the Central 

4 African Republic who have been adversely affected 

5 by this interrelated violence and instability; 

6 (2) calls upon the Governments of Chad and 

7 Sudan— 


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1 (A) to reaffirm their commitment to the 

2 Tripoli Declaration of February 8, 2006, and 

3 the N’Djamena Agreement of July 26, 2006; 

4 (B) to refrain from any actions that violate 

5 these agreements; and 

6 (C) to cease all logistical, financial, and 

7 military support to each others’ insurgent 

8 groups; 

9 (3) urges the Government of Chad to improve 

10 accountability and transparency as well as the provi11 sion of basic services to redeem the legitimacy of the 

12 Government in the eyes of its citizens; 

13 (4) urges the Government of Chad to take ac14 tion to increase political participation and to 

15 strengthen democratic institutions to ensure that all 

16 segments of society in Chad can participate in and 

17 benefit from a transparent, open, and capable gov18 ernment; 

19 (5) urges the Government of Chad, the Govern20 ment of Sudan, and other key regional and inter21 national stakeholders to commit to another round of 

22 inclusive political negotiations that can bring lasting 

23 peace and stability to the region; 

24 (6) calls upon the President to advocate for the 

25 appointment of a senior United Nations official to 


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1 direct and coordinate all international humanitarian 

2 activities on both sides of Sudan’s western border 

3 and expand the response to emergency needs related 

4 to the political and humanitarian situation in the 

5 Central African Republic; 

6 (7) urges the President to utilize the resources 

7 and leverage at the President’s disposal to press for 

8 the immediate deployment of an advance mission to 

9 eastern Chad to lay the groundwork for a robust 

10 multilateral and multidimensional presence; 

11 (8) urges the United Nations Security Council 

12 to authorize a multilateral and multidimensional 

13 peacekeeping force to eastern Chad with the man14 date and means— 

15 (A) to ensure effective protection of civil16 ians, particularly refugees and internally dis17 placed persons, including by preempting, pre18 venting, and deterring attacks on civilians; 

19 (B) to organize regular patrols along the 

20 western border of Sudan and implement prac21 tical protection measures for asylum seekers; 

22 (C) to maintain the civilian and humani23 tarian nature of the internally displaced persons 

24 and refugee camps in Chad and facilitate the 

25 efforts of aid workers; 


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1 (D) to deter, monitor, investigate, and re2 port attacks on humanitarian personnel and as3 sets; 

4 (E) to provide around the clock physical 

5 security in the camps and surrounding areas, 

6 including organized patrols to guarantee free7 dom of movement to all civilians and humani8 tarian workers; 

9 (F) to coordinate and share information 

10 with humanitarian organizations, actively pre11 serve unhindered humanitarian access to all dis12 placed persons, and ensure the safety of all hu13 manitarian workers in accordance with inter14 national humanitarian law; 

15 (G) to collect and report evidence of 

16 human rights violations and perpetrators to the 

17 United Nations on a timely and regular basis; 

18 and 

19 (H) to support domestic and multilateral 

20 initiatives to strengthen local judicial, police, 

21 and correctional systems in Chad; and 

22 (9) urges the President and the international 

23 community to coordinate efforts to make available 

24 sufficient resources in support of this multilateral 

25 and multidimensional mission, as well as adequate 


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1 assistance to meet the continuing humanitarian and 

2 security needs of the individuals and areas most af3 fected by this conflict. 

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