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"Next few weeks critical" to Lusaka, says Holbrooke

    NAIROBI
    Meanwhile, US Ambassador to the UN Richard Holbrooke said in the US on Monday, on his return after Washington's highest-level mission ever to focus overwhelmingly on the Great Lakes, that the Lusaka peace process was at a crucial stage. Holbrooke would be "hard put to give a significantly optimistic report" and "the next few weeks are going to be quite critical," he said. As an intensification of American diplomatic efforts to support Lusaka, the administration was sending Ambassador Howard Wolpe, US Special Envoy for the Great Lakes, straight back into the region "to accelerate the negotiations," Holbrooke added.

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