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JMC meeting in Lusaka

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    The Joint Military Commission (JMC) set up under the Lusaka agreement to coordinate activities of all warring parties in DRC met in Lusaka, Zambia, on Friday. "There is a JMC meeting going on now in Lusaka," a UN official told IRIN on Friday. The talks were scheduled to continue until Saturday. Amama Mbabazi, the Ugandan minister for regional cooperation and chairman of the political committee, told IRIN on Friday that the main issues to be discussed at a meeting of the committee in Kampala on 5 June included a detailed disengagement plan, disarmament of armed groups and preparation for a meeting with the UN Security Council on 15 and 16 June. Meanwhile, the semi-official 'New Vision' newspaper on Friday reported that the JMC had set up an office in the northeastern DRC city of Kisangani to observe
    the ongoing withdrawal of Ugandan and Rwandan troops.

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