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Namibia ready to withdraw once UN peacekeepers are in place

    NAIROBI

    Namibia said on Thursday it would withdraw its military intervention force from the DRC as soon as UN peacekeepers were deployed. “We would withdraw from DRC now if UN peacekeepers were in place. We shall withdraw tomorrow, if they come,” Permanent Secretary at the Namibian foreign ministry, Veiccoh Nghiwete, told IRIN. He also accused the UN of “dragging its heels” over implementation of the Lusaka ceasefire in a way it had not over East Timor.

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