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Kono key to ending the conflict, Koroma says

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    Pro-government forces must seize the rebel-held eastern diamond region of Kono to end Sierra Leone's renewed conflict, a key member of President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah's war coalition told IRIN.

    Johnny Paul Koroma, a former coup leader and chairman of the Commission for the Consolidation of Peace (CCP), said that any future peace negotiations with the Revolutionary United Front (RUF), the government must talk from a position of strength. "In other words, the mining areas have to be taken under government control. If that is not done then the war will continue," he said.

    [See separate item titled 'SIERRA LEONE: Kono key to ending the conflict']

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