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“Frustration, but no guilt”, UN says

    NAIROBI

    The UN Security Council held informal discussions on the DRC on Tuesday, including the deployment of the UN technical survey team and talks between President Laurent-Desire Kabila and UN special representative Moustapha Niasse. UN spokesman Fred Eckhard told reporters that delays in deploying UN personnel had resulted from lack of permission and security guarantees from the DRC government. “There may be some frustration, but no guilt,” he said of the UN’s handling of the situation. The ceasefire, though shaky, was now showing some results, he added. “We keep plodding ahead here, two steps forward, one step back,” Eckhard said.

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