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Museveni rules out unilateral Congo withdrawal

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    Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni told the Ugandan assembly on Sunday there would be no unilateral withdrawal of the UPDF from the DRC, and that Ugandan troops would leave the country only under the terms of the Lusaka peace deal. “If individual forces began withdrawing unilaterally, this could upset this carefully negotiated sequence of events and, in fact, possibly lead to the collapse of the ceasefire agreement as a whole,” Museveni said, having been summoned to address parliament in the aftermath of the Kisangani clashes. Uganda’s primary task in the DRC - stated to be safeguarding its borders against rebels backed by neighbouring Sudan- had been “largely achieved,” Museveni added.

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