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'Status of forces' agreement essential - Annan

    NAIROBI

    UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan on Friday told a closed consultation of the Security Council that the early conclusion of a status of forces agreement with the Congolese government was essential before the full second-phase deployment of the UN Observer Mission to the DRC (MONUC) could proceed, according to UN spokesman Fred Eckhard. The relocation of the Joint Military Commission (JMC), mandated with implementing the Lusaka
    ceasefire agreement, from its provisional headquarters in the Zambian capital Lusaka to the DRC capital Kinshasa was also vital, Annan stated. MONUC had indicated last month that, while the JMC should ideally be "co-located with the MONUC headquarters in Kinshasa", the legitimate security concerns of some of the belligerents meant that it would continue
    to operate in Lusaka for the time being.

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