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Deployment of Libyan troops "up to OAU and Security Council"

    NAIROBI
    Sixty two Libyan troops sent to Uganda to take up a proposed peacekeeping mission on the Uganda-DRC border have not yet been deployed and will not be until the Libyan-brokered Sirte accord under which they were sent is ratified or superseded at the ongoing peace talks in Lusaka, the Ugandan authorities have stated. "There is just no way Libyans could be deployed when the belligerents are still hostile to each other. Uganda cannot decide on the deployment of the Libyan troops. It is now upon the OAU and UN Security Council to decide which countries contribute troops to Congo," a top source in the foreign ministry, quoted by 'The New Vision' newspaper on Sunday, commented. The Libyan contingent, sent to Uganda after Presidents Yoweri Museveni and Laurent Desire Kabila signed a peace agreement in Libya on 18 April, have been living for more than a month now in the Windsor Hotel, Entebbe, and Nile Hotel, Kampala.

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