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UN envoy to assess spillover on CAR, RoC

    NAIROBI

    UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan on Thursday appointed a special envoy to the Republic of Congo and the Central African Republic in order to “assess the humanitarian, economic, political, social and security consequences of the conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo on these neighbouring states”. Amara Essy, who was president of the UN General Assembly in 1994 and is a former foreign minister of Côte d’Ivoire, is due to start his mission on Saturday and report back to the Secretary-General on 18 December.

    Meanwhile, Annan’s Special Representative to the DRC, Kamel Morjane, on Thursday welcomed the outcome of this week’s Maputo summit and the subsequent meeting of the parties to the Lusaka ceasefire agreement, which helped pave the way for the UN peacekeeping mission in the country, a UN press release stated.
    Morjane, who attended the two meetings, “expressed hope that effective and comprehensive implementation of the disengagement and redeployment plan would help resolve the crucial problem of ceasefire violations, and lead the parties to withdraw their forces from the frontlines to previously agreed positions,” it added.

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