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No talks with RUF while UN staff detained

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    UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan has ruled out any talks with the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) on the future of the peace process in Sierra Leone while the rebels detain UN peacekeepers, UN spokesman Fred Eckhard reported on Friday in New York. The international community views the detention of the peacekeepers as a "serious crime" whose perpetrators will "no doubt be held accountable for their actions," Eckhard said. It was essential, he added, for the RUF to release the peacekeepers immediately and allow them to rejoin their units. Some 11 UN Mission in Sierra Leone (UNAMSIL) military observers of various nationalities and 245 Indian peacekeepers continue to be encircled and detained by the RUF in Kailahun and Pendembu in eastern Sierra Leone.

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