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Security Council urges respect for accord

    NAIROBI
    UN Security Council members have welcomed the signing of the Lusaka ceasefire agreement by the rebel Rassemblement congolais pour la democratie (RCD). In a press statement late Thursday, the Council's president for the month of September, Peter van Walsum of the Netherlands, said the members urged all sides to abide strictly by the agreement and to refrain from any action putting it at risk "so that peace can become a reality." The members also welcomed the imminent deployment of the first group of UN military liaison officers to the region to help implement the accord, the statement said.

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