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    The DRC government has recalled its ambassador to Belgium after the former colonial power issued an international arrest warrant for Foreign Minister Yerodia Abdoulaye Ndombasi on charges of inciting ethnic hatred. Speaking on state television on Friday, DRC Information Minister Didier Mumengi accused Belgium of "cynicism" and "duplicity", and said the warrant violated the immunity of foreign government officials. Reuters news agency said Yerodia, who is now liable to arrest if he enters any country willing to execute the warrant, has denied the charges. He was quoted as saying his remarks in 1998 - when he described the Tutsis as "vermin" and called for their "extermination" - referred to the Tutsi-led rebels who attacked Kinshasa, and not to a specific ethnic group.

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