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Government rejects dialogue plan

    NAIROBI

    Congolese Foreign Minister Abdoulaye Yerodia on Saturday rejected a proposed plan for the organisation of inter-Congolese negotiations called for in the Lusaka ceasefire agreement, news agencies said. The plan, proposed by the OAU-appointed talks' facilitator, former president of Botswana Ketumile Masire, set a 3 July deadline for the start of the negotiations on the political future of the DRC, and suggested Botswana, Zambia or Ethiopia as venues, AFP reported. "The government of the
    Democratic Republic of the Congo rejects the so-called Masire plan," Yerodia told a news conference, adding that the negotiations should be held in the DRC, preferably in Kinshasa. He also rejected Masire's proposal that foreign ambassadors take part in preparatory meetings leading up to the July negotiations. Masire should limit himself to putting the various parties in contact and allowing them to run their own
    negotiations, AFP quoted Yerodia as saying. Masire was scheduled to brief the UN Security Council in a closed private session in New York on Tuesday, UN spokesman Fred Eckhard said.

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