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Government concerned by Kisangani situation

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    Citing reported Rwandan and Ugandan troop reinforcements in Kisangani, the DRC government has again called on the UN Security Council to order their immediate withdrawal from the country. In a letter to the Council, DRC's representative to the UN, Andre Mwamba Kapanga, said the government was "greatly concerned" by the situation in Kisangani. "My Government would be
    grateful if the Security Council went beyond simply taking note of the offensives being conducted by these countries in Congolese territory and strongly condemned the aggression to which the Democratic Republic of the Congo has been subjected since 2 August 1998 by the armed coalition of Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi," the letter stated.

    Meanwhile, the Goma-based rebel Rassemblement congolais pour la democratie (RCD) said in a statement received by IRIN on Tuesday that Kabila's forces and their allies had attacked several RCD positions in Katanga, Equateur, the Kivus and in Kasai since 20 March.

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