West Africa to send peacekeepers to Liberia within two weeks

ABIDJAN (AFP) Jul 09, 2003
West African nations have agreed to form a peacekeeping force for war-torn Liberia and will send a first contingent in the next two weeks, Ghana's foreign minister told AFP Wednesday by telephone from Maputo.

"We are looking at a timeframe of 10 to 14 days and a total force of 1,000 to 1,500," Addo Dankwa Akufo Addo said from the Mozambique capital which will host a summit of the African Union this week.

"As we speak the modalities are being worked out," he said. "We are hammering out the details of how large the initial force will be and which countries will contribute to it."

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