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Regional summit calls for rapid UN deployment

    NAIROBI

    Regional leaders on Friday called on the UN to quickly deploy a
    peacekeeping force to help solve the conflict in the DRC, news agencies reported. At a summit held in the Zimbabwean town of Victoria Falls to discuss implementation of the Lusaka ceasefire agreement, the presidents of Namibia, Mozambique, Uganda and Zimbabwe, as well as the Rwandan foreign minister, said that there had been "no noticeable hostilities" over the previous two weeks in the DRC, Zimbabwean radio reported. A statement from Uganda's State House, received by IRIN on Tuesday, said the
    "informal" meeting, chaired by SADC chairman President Joaquim Chissano of Mozambique, had strengthened the parties' political will to find solutions in the DRC. It quoted Chissano as saying at a post-summit press briefing that an "atmosphere of trust" had developed between the belligerents.

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