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Choosing dialogue facilitator "immediate next step"

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    Holbrooke also emphasised that outside peacekeepers could not deliver peace and said the people of the region "must commit themselves to the implementation of the Lusaka Agreement, to stop all the fighting, to bring in an outside facilitator into the process, to withdraw the outside forces and to replace them with a peacekeeping force". All sides must "take the
    most immediate next step in the Lusaka Agreement: to choose a facilitator for the political process (the inter-Congolese political dialogue)," without which the US would not support any peacekeeping force, he said. Kinshasa must also allow UN liaison officers and assessment teams the access, freedom of movement and security to do their jobs, Holbrooke added.

    [see IRIN-SA item headlined "Holbrooke outlines new US policy on Africa" [19991207]

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