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OAU statement calls for JMC funding

    NAIROBI

    The 59th session of the OAU Mechanism for Conflict Prevention, Management and Resolution on Monday expressed its satisfaction that the Lusaka ceasefire was “holding since the signing of the Agreement”. It urged member states of the OAU and the international community to extend concrete support - in the form of urgent financial and logistical assistance - to the Joint Military Commission (JMC) mandated with implementing the peace agreement.

    A statement from the grouping encouraged OAU Secretary-General Salim Ahmed Salim to consider ways of mobilising financial resources for the DRC peace process, especially to support the JMC but also to allow the proposed opening of an OAU liaison office in the DRC, and support OAU efforts to facilitate the choice of a neutral mediator for the planned inter-Congolese talks. Finally, it requested that any financial assistance to the DRC peace be channelled through the OAU Peace Fund.

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