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UN expresses optimism over DRC peace process

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    The UN has expressed optimism that the DRC peace process has taken the right direction after UN personnel were finally deployed in the field. “It’s been two steps forward, one step back, but ... it looks like it’s going in the right direction, and let’s just hope that it continues to do so,” UN spokesman Fred Eckhard told a press briefing in New York on Thursday. He said there had been a broad international effort to keep the situation in the DRC under control. Eckhard said the UN hoped the current peace agreement was the beginning of a solution. “It’s been very disappointing that it’s been slow in being implemented, and that there have been questions about some of the parties’ commitment to it,” he added. He confirmed that the UN technical survey team left Kinshasa on Thursday for Gbadolite where it would stay for a day then travel to Goma, Kisangani, Bukavu and Kananga.

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