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Annan promises to act according to UN inquiry's requirements

    NAIROBI

    UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan on Tuesday said he would act according to the requirements of a report by a UN independent inquiry team set up six months ago to investigate the organisation's role in the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. "As a human being...I feel that it is painful and tragic that we could not have done more to avoid Srebrenica, to avoid Rwanda and to avoid
    what happened in East Timor," Annan told journalists at UN headquarters in New York. He said the UN did the "best it could" with the assets it had under the circumstances, but reiterated there were important lessons to learn. "If the report requires that we do take action against individuals or groups - or if there is gross negligence - we will," Annan stressed.
    The team was to present its report to Annan on Wednesday.

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