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MLC unhappy with UN meeting

    NAIROBI

    Jean-Pierre Bemba’s rebel Mouvement de liberation du Congo (MLC) criticised the fact the rebel groups had not been invited to the Security Council debate. MLC Secretary-General Olivier Kamitatu told IRIN on Tuesday that by inviting Kabila, the international community was giving him “prominence and importance”, while forgetting the “proponents of democracy”. “We were turned down at the US embassy in Kampala which told us that we were not invited to the meeting, but if we wanted to go and see New York, we were free to do so,” he said. “But this, we feel goes against chapter five of the Lusaka agreement which says all parties to the agreement are equal.” “Because we were not invited, we decided to stay at home,” he added.

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