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DRC: MONUC opens security centre for transitional government
KINSHASA, 24 July 2003 (IRIN) - The United Nations opened a Joint Security Operations Centre in Kinshasa on Thursday for coordination of the safety of members of the transitional government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
"The objective of the centre is to avoid bottlenecks, disorder and even confrontations between the bodyguards of the various parties and personalities," Hamadoun Toure, spokesman of the UN Mission in the DRC, known as MONUC, said.
He said on Wednesday that each of the parties to the power-sharing government - namely, the outgoing Kinshasa government; former rebel groups Mouvement de liberation du Congo and Rassemblement congolais pour la democratie; the unarmed political opposition; civil society; and Mayi-Mayi militias - would each have two security representatives based at the centre.
"The centre will coordinate the movements of the various politicians and their bodyguards to know who is doing what and where," Toure said.
The various parties recently agreed on the number of bodyguards to which they each would be entitled, after considerable debate: the four vice-presidents will each have 108 bodyguards, ministers will each have 13 and vice-ministers will have eight. The number of bodyguards to be allocated for senators and deputies, however, has yet to be determined.
Theme(s): (IRIN) Conflict
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