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UN Special Representative takes up duty

    NAIROBI

    Kamel Morjane, the newly-appointed Special Representative to the DRC of UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, arrived in Kinshasa on Saturday to take up his duties, Annan's spokesman Fred Eckhard stated on Monday. Regional observers welcomed the arrival of Morjane, who has an initial mandate until March 2000, and wished he might bring the high-level "political leadership and drive" that the Lusaka peace process was seen to need at this point.

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