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Holbrooke to lead UN Security Council mission

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    The US ambassador to the UN, Richard Holbrooke, is to lead a Security Council mission to the region, the UN announced. The seven-member delegation will arrive in Kinshasa on 4 May and return from Lusaka on 8 May. The delegation is also due to visit Uganda and Rwanda. A statement from the Security Council presidency said other members of the delegation included Jean-David Levitte (France), Moctar Ouane (Mali), Martin Andjaba
    (Namibia), A. Peter Van Walsum (Netherlands), Said Ben Mustapha (Tunisia), Jeremy Greenstock (UK).

    The mission's terms of reference include focusing on conditions necessary for the full deployment of the UN mission in the DRC (MONUC), the statement said. The Security Council mission will also emphasise the need for strict adherence to the ceasefire, reliable guarantees for security and freedom of movement for UN personnel, relocation of the Joint Military Commission (JMC) from Lusaka to Kinshasa and its establishment as a permanently sitting body, the development of a working relationship
    between MONUC and the JMC, and concrete progress by all sides on the disengagement of forces. The mission will meet representatives of all the signatories to the Lusaka agreement and request Zambian President Frederick Chiluba, who facilitated the accord, to convene a summit meeting.

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