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Minister “astonished” at proposed UN deployment

    NAIROBI

    Foreign Minister Yerodia Abdoulaye Ndombasi said on Monday the DRC was “astonished” that MONUC had sought to deploy military observers “exclusively in the region of national territory where security is already ensured” and where, he said, there was neither contact between the belligerents nor presence of “non-invited foreign forces”. “The UN authorities are asking us to allow them deploy in places that we find strange, namely to Matadi, Kamina, Mbuji-Mayi and Kananga ... There are no rebels, no aggressors in those places,” Ndombasi said in a press briefing, reported by state television. “There is a trap in all this, which we have denounced strongly,” he added.

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