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Peace moves pushed at OAU summit

    NAIROBI
    Speaking in Algiers on Tuesday, Zambian President Frederick Chiluba said the OAU and the UN would soon establish a Joint Military Commission (JMC) to monitor the ceasefire agreement signed by leaders of the six countries involved in the DRC conflict, news agencies reported. Chiluba said the OAU was now working on "modalities" for sending peacekeepers and appointing an independent chairperson for the JMC, to be composed of military officials from the six belligerent countries. The accord, approved in the Zambian capital Lusaka on Saturday, has not yet been signed by the three Congolese rebel groups. Meanwhile, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, on the margins of the OAU summit in Algiers on Tuesday, held a joint meeting on the DRC with President Laurent-Desire Kabila, the presidents of Namibia and Zimbabwe and OAU Secretary-General Salim Ahmed Salim, a UN statement said.

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