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Kigali wants apology in person from Annan

    NAIROBI

    Rwanda has called on UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan to come to Kigali personally and apologise for the UN's failure to prevent the 1994 genocide. "We expect the secretary-general to come here to personally offer his apologies and those of the UN," Minister in the President's Office Patrick Mazimhaka told the BBC. "We hope he will take the trouble because he was in charge at the time." An independent enquiry into the UN's role during the genocide, commissioned by Annan, concludes that the
    UN failed the people of Rwanda and it should have apologised "more clearly, more frankly and much earlier". The report, which found the UN lacking in leadership and decision-making, recommended that the Secretary-General actively seek ways to launch a new beginning in the relationship between the UN and Rwanda.

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