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DATE=5/5/2000
TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT
TITLE=U-N CONGO FIGHTING (L ONLY)
NUMBER=2-262051
BYLINE=BRECK ARDERY
DATELINE=UNITED NATIONS
CONTENT=
VOICED AT:
INTRO:  The United Nations Security Council today 
(Friday) formally condemned the recent outbreak of 
fighting in Congo-Kinshasa. V-O-A Correspondent Breck 
Ardery reports from the United Nations. 
TEXT:  The Council reacted quickly to the clashes 
between Rwandan and Ugandan troops in the rebel-held 
Congo city of Kisangani in the northern part of the 
country.
Speaking through an English translator, Council 
President Wang Yingfan of China read a statement 
endorsed by all members that called the fighting a 
direct violation of the peace agreement reached last 
year in Lusaka, Zambia.
            ///Wang act///
      The Security Council demands that these latest 
      hostilities cease immediately and that those 
      involved in the fighting at Kisangani reaffirm 
      their commitment to the Lusaka process and 
      comply with all relevant Security Council 
      resolutions. The Council renews its commitment 
      to the national sovereignty, territorial 
      integrity and political independence of the 
      Democratic Republic of Congo.
            ///end act///
The multi-sided Congo conflict involves the Congolese 
government, backed by Angola, Namibia and Zimbabwe, 
against rebel groups. The governments of Burundi, 
Rwanda and Uganda support the rebels. But Rwanda and 
Uganda now support different rebel groups and U-N 
sources say that is what led to the fighting.
The renewed fighting came as a seven-member U-N 
Security Council delegation was visiting Congo on a 
fact-finding mission. The Security Council has 
authorized a 55-hundred member military observer 
mission for Congo but it has yet to be deployed.
            ///Rest opt///
The trouble in Congo comes at a time when the United 
Nations is having serious problems with its 
peacekeeping mission in the west African nation of 
Sierra Leone. Rebels there, in violation of a cease-
fire agreement, have attacked peacekeepers, taken them 
hostage and commandeered United Nations equipment.
At least seven African heads-of-state have been 
pressuring rebel leader Foday Sankoh to order an end 
to the attacks on the United Nations.(Signed)
NEB/UN/BA/LSF/PT
05-May-2000 16:46 PM EDT (05-May-2000 2046 UTC)
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Source: Voice of America
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