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UN team in Pweto to monitor Rwandan withdrawal

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    A military observer team from the UN Mission in the DRC (MONUC) left the DRC capital, Kinshasa, on Friday for the town of Pweto, in the southeastern province of Katanga, to prepare for the deployment of additional UN observers who will monitor the disengagement of Rwandan troops, according to UN spokesman Fred Eckhard.

    The team of four military observers would become operational on Sunday, Eckhard told journalists in New York on Friday. The dispatch of the observers follows the recent announcement by Rwandan President Paul Kagame that Rwanda's troops would be withdrawing 200 km from Pweto in the direction of their own country. MONUC was expecting 40 extra military observers to arrive in Pweto on Monday, Eckhard added.

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