Norway and Sweden will send a joint engineering unit with about 350 members to support an international peacekeeping force in Darfur, Sweden's foreign minister said Friday. The Scandinavian unit will be deployed for a year starting in early 2008. It will help build roads and a communication infrastructure for the 26,000-strong peacekeeping force, a joint operation by the African Union and the United Nations. Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt said the exact size of the Scandinavian unit would be decided in consultations with the U.N. «We are counting on about 350 members, including about 150-160 from Sweden,» Bildt told The Associated Press by telephone.
