Javier SOLANA,

EU High Representative for the CFSP,

visited the Central African on Tuesday, 6 May

 

Javier SOLANA, EU High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP),

visited the Central African Republic on Tuesday, 6 May 2008, in the context of his first field visit to

the EUFOR Tchad/RCA operation currently being deployed.

In Bangui, Mr SOLANA met President François BOZIZE. The High Representative and the

President had an exchange on the latest developments in the country and the wider region.

Javier SOLANA underlined that the EU was very committed to the Central African Republic in all

areas and notably in the field of security through the EU force. The EUFOR detachment in the

north-eastern part of the country is deployed in Birao and totals some two-hundred troops.

The High Representative also encouraged President BOZIZE to organise, as soon as possible, the

planned inclusive political dialogue with the non-armed opposition, the civil society and the rebels,

with a view to securing peace on the entirety of the territory of the Republic.

Javier SOLANA also met the Special Representative of the UN Secretary General, François FALL,

several EU ambassadors and other representatives of the international community present in

Bangui.