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Government urges UN to expedite FLC and UPDF disengagement

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    Meanwhile, in a separate letter to the Security Council, the DRC’s UN representative Ileka Atoki protested against the alleged failure of the rebel Front pour la liberation du Congo (FLC) and the Uganda People’s Defence Force to fulfill withdrawal commitments and recommended that the Council take measures to address the situation. “My government wishes to inform the Security Council that, to date, the forces of the FLC and the Uganda People’s Defence Force (UPDF) have not disengaged and redeployed in accordance with the Kampala Disengagement and Redeployment Plan of 8 April 2000 [...],” DRC ambassador Ileka Atoki stated in his letter.

    Atoki also sought to draw the Council’s attention to “...the public and frequently reiterated refusal of the RCD-Goma and Rwandan authorities to demilitarise the city of Kisangani and of the multiple and unacceptable pressures which they exercise on the personnel of the United Nations Organisation Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUC)”.

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