Action plan on Lusaka due within 45 days

The Security Council resolution also expanded MONUC's mandate to include the development of an action plan within 45 days for the implementation of the ceasefire agreement. "In particular, it will be necessary to reflect on the question of the disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration of the armed groups in order to develop a realistic plan of action," a UN press release stated.

However Canada's representative to the UN, Robert Fowler, voiced concern that the available resources fell "precariously short" of matching MONUC's expanded mandate. While it was "never easy to balance the requirements of an immediate response with the sober consideration of longer-term consequences, cost aversion and outside political realities had, unfortunately, also influenced the Security Council", a UN press release
quoted Fowler as saying.