Closure of MINURCAT

MINURCAT completed its mandate on 31 December 2010, in accordance with Security Council resolution 1923 (2010) and at the request of the Chadian Government, which had pledged full responsibility for protecting civilians on its territory. Following its withdrawal, the UN country team and the UN Integrated Peacebuilding Office in the Central African Republic (BINUCA) remained in the country to continue to work for the benefit of the Chadian people.

Reporting to the Security Council in December, the Secretary-General said “MINURCAT has been an unusual and unique United Nations peacekeeping operation in that it was devoted solely to contributing to the protection of civilians, without an explicit political mandate. It has gone through the stages of planning, deployment and withdrawal in the short span of less than four years, enduring adversities in each.”

For more on the implementation of the MINURCAT’s mandate, achievements and the lessons learned, please see the Secretary-General’s final report S/2010/611 of 1 December 2010.

MINURCAT Gives Assistance to the NGO INTERNEWS

8 Oct 2009

MINURCAT Gives Assistance to the NGO INTERNEWS

Abeche, 28 September 2009 ---The Public Information Office of the United Nations Mission in the Central African Republic and Chad (MINURCAT) handed over some radio equipment to the American NGO INTERNEWS. The ceremony took place in Abeche in the premises of Radio Voix du Ouaddai on 28 September 2009. INTERNEWS is one of the sponsors of the radio.

The radio equipment included a complete kit of four MARANTZ recorders.

During the ceremony, staff representing INTERNEWS expressed their satisfaction after receiving the new equipment, and said that it will go a long way in supporting the radio in the production of programmes to inform, sensitize and educate refugees and IDPs in eastern Chad.

The new equipment was handed over as part of a Memorandum of cooperation between MINURCAT and INTERNEWS.

INTERNEWS is an international information and development organization aimed at providing local media throughout the world with the means for objective reporting as well as a forum for local populations to express their opinions.

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Closure of MINURCAT

MINURCAT Gives Assistance to the NGO INTERNEWS

MINURCAT Gives Assistance to the NGO INTERNEWS