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DRC pullout depends on arrival of UN peacekeepers

    NAIROBI

    President Pasteur Bizimungu has said his country will pull out of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) once UN peacekeepers are in place, Zimbabwean radio reported on Sunday. He told journalists after meeting his Zimbabwean counterpart Robert Mugabe in Maputo, Mozambique, that the UN Security Council would be approached to send the peacekeepers in “good time”. The Lusaka peace accord had failed to hold due to the absence of UN peacekeepeers, he added. Despite being on opposite sides in the DRC conflict, Rwanda and Zimbabwe still had bilateral relations, he stressed.

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