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Security Council backs new plan for UNOGBIS

    NAIROBI

    The UN Security Council on Tuesday backed Secretary-General Kofi Annan's modified mandate for the UN Peace Building Office in Guinea Bissau (UNOGBIS) and his decision to set up a trust fund to finance its activities, Council President Hasmy Agam said.

    Agam said Guinea Bissau, especially the capital, suffered much destruction during the war but lacked money to make a quick recovery. He thus urged the international community to continue helping its healing process and reconstruction effort.

    In addition to its previous tasks, UNOGBIS will now "support national efforts towards national reconciliation, tolerance and peaceful management of differences". Another new task is "to encourage initiatives aimed at building confidence and maintaining friendly relations between Guinea-Bissau and its neighbours and international partners".

    UNOGBIS had already been mandated, among other things, to "help create an enabling environment for restoring, maintaining and consolidating peace, democracy and the rule of law and for the organisation of free and transparent elections".

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