A UN technical survey team on Friday successfully completed its first round of field visits and is set to continue to other locations in the coming weeks to help determine “what is logistically possible within the DRC”, the UN Observer Mission in the DRC (MONUC) said on Monday. In a statement, MONUC said the team had been “warmly welcomed” by local authorities at the five locations visited on the first leg - Gbadolite, Goma, Kisangani, Bukavu and Kananga. The team would next visit areas where the real military headquarters of the warring parties are based, and its findings would provide “essential practical information” to plan options for the second stage of the UN’s peacekeeping mission in the country, the statement said.
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