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Miyet to explain UN mission and seek “full support”

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    Meanwhile, UN Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations Bernard Miyet was due in Kinshasa on Thursday to explain in detail the UN plans to deploy a force in the country. He also intended to seek from all belligerents “the full support essential to deploy the more than 5,500-strong military observer mission”, a UN press release stated. In approving the expanded mandate of the UN Observer Mission to the DRC (MONUC) on 24 February, the Security Council asked to be advised as soon as possible on “whether deployment conditions existed or not”, and Miyet’s mission was part of that assessment, the statement said. Miyet was scheduled to remain in DRC until Sunday, before travelling on to Zimbabwe, Rwanda and Uganda to complete his mission.

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