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Government objects to same treatment as “aggressors”

    NAIROBI

    Kinshasa on Tuesday said it had objected to deployment plans by MONUC last week because they dealt with the government and rebels on the same basis. “They put us on the same level as the aggressors,” Reuters reported Foreign Minister Abdoulaye Yerodia as saying. He also accused the UN mission of not informing the government of the planned visit of a technical survey team to Mbandaka town, permission for which was denied by Kinshasa. However, MONUC sources told IRIN the government knew of the plan and had been approached for a security guarantee.

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