The UN secretariat in cooperation with the World Bank was preparing a conference to mobilise the required resources for the demobilisation and army restructuring programme after MINURCA’s departure, the UN Special Representative said. Meanwhile, a UN political office would “hopefully” be installed in Bangui as soon as MINURCA’s mandate expired to follow up UN efforts in the country, Adeniji said. Those efforts would include the army restructuring programme as well as human rights observation. Adeniji, who was recently appointed as the new UN Special Representative for Sierra Leone, said he was now between the two assignments.
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