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PM denies that conflict is likely

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    Guinea Bissau’s prime minister, Faustino Imbali, denied on Friday that a new conflict was likely to happen in his country but warned that it needed financial help to avoid such a situation.

    “A country such as ours, in the aftermath of a conflict, needs resources. Peace and stability are not achieved only with words,” LUSA reported Imbali as saying. He added that anything was possible in a situation where the government was unable to pay salaries or provide food, light and water to the people over a long period of time.

    In his 22 June report to the Security Council, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan said that although significant financial contributions had already been made to help consolidate Guinea-Bissau’s peace-building agenda, much more remained to be done.

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