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Canada annouces support for ECOMOG

Canada will contribute one million Canadian dollars (US $660,000) in support of ECOMOG efforts to reestablish stability in Sierra Leone, Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Lloyd Axworthy announced yesterday in Ghana, where he was discussing the situation in Sierra Leone with the governments of Nigeria and Ghana. A Canadian government statement said the donation to ECOMOG, which the UN had chosen “as its peacekeeping partner in the region”, was in response to the latest crisis in the country.

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