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Bonino pledges cooperation when situation normalises

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    EU Humanitarian Aid Commissioner, Emma Bonino, held talks with President Kabbah in Freetown yesterday and urged the authorities to facilitate access for humanitarian workers, news organisations reported. “Development cooperation on a long- and short-term basis will be undertaken in Sierra Leone when the situation normalises,” she told the president.

    Kabbah replied that the war was not a totally internal affair “but has a wider international dimension, as is evident in the arrest of foreign nationals in the war front”. He called on the EU to “provide assistance in terms of logistics to help maintain and protect democracy”.

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