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US proposing ECOMOG support

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    US President Bill Clinton is seeking congressional approval to provide US $1.7 million worth of logistical support to ECOMOG, State Department spokesman James Foley said yesterday. He said the US had over the past year given ECOMOG over US $5 million for, among other things, the purchase of equipment and maintenance of vehicles. The US had also recently sent a medical team and four tons of supplies to NIgeria to treat wounded Nigerian troops, Foley said. The US support to ECOMOG is to enable it to “do the job they need to do to counter these horrendous brutalities perpetrated by these insurgents,” Foley said.

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