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Peacekeeping force extended

    NAIROBI

    The UN Security Council on Friday extended the mandate of the UN Mission in the CAR (MINURCA) for three months until 15 February 2000. In a resolution adopted unanimously, the Council welcomed UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s proposal to despatch a small multidisciplinary mission to Bangui to examine conditions for a UN presence beyond MINURCA’s new withdrawal date. It also welcomed Annan’s proposal that MINURCA’s size be reduced in three stages, and it called on the government to move forward with the restructuring of the armed forces. MINURCA was deployed to Bangui last year to assist in safeguarding peace and stability following a series of army mutinies in 1996-7.

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