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South Africa ready to provide troops

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    Meanwhile, South African Foreign Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma on Monday also urged the UN to rapidly deploy 5,500 observers and soldiers under the second phase of the UN Mission in the DRC (MONUC), news agencies said. "It's a miracle that the peace agreement hasn't broken down immediately. If the deployment is very slow it can fall apart," Zuma told Reuters in Kigali after meeting with new Rwandan President Paul Kagame. "The troops
    should have been deployed a long time ago... The United Nations should take the lead," Zuma stated. She added that South Africa was willing to contribute troops to the peacekeeping force if requested by the UN, Reuters reported.

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