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Peace process facing deep problems

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    In the short term, the biggest problem facing the peace process was Kabila’s refusal to allow the UN observer team to the Congo (MONUC) deploy in government-held areas, regional analyst Richard Cornwell of the Institute of Security Studies in South Africa told IRIN on Monday. In broader terms, the JMC faced the potentially crippling problem that it had been given, or taken upon itself, “massive jobs”, such as tracking down and disarming ex-FAR and Interahamwe forces, but there was absolutely no guarantee of the sizeable UN peacekeeping force it envisaged taking them over. As a result, the JMC has been “left hanging in the air - it can’t go forward and can’t go back,” Cornwell added.

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