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EU official says aid to depend upon peace progress

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    The humanitarian commissioner of the European Union (EU) expressed concern on Thursday regarding progress in the DRC peace process and said future aid would depend on meetings to be held next week in the DRC, Reuters reported. “The response [from government and rebels] both in words and deeds...will be decisive for how much we do and what we do,” Poul Nielson of Denmark, the EU development and humanitarian aid commissioner, said. He added that planned aid, worth some 120 million euros (US $102 million), would not be delivered before all parties had shown a clear willingness to be part of one political system.

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