SPECIAL ENVOY FOR DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO PEACE PROCESS TO TRAVEL TO KINSHASA ,7 - 10 NOVEMBER

Press Release
SG/SM/7207
AFG/192

SPECIAL ENVOY FOR DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO PEACE PROCESS TO TRAVEL TO KINSHASA ,7 - 10 NOVEMBER

The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan:

The Secretary-General has asked his Special Envoy for the peace process for the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Moustapha Nisasse, to travel to Kinshasa from 7 to 10 November for consultations with the Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Mr. Niasse will, inter alia, discuss the ongoing deployment of United Nations personnel in the Democratic Republic of the Congo to assist in the implementation of the Lusaka Ceasefire Agreement and several other issues related to the peace process. While in Kinshasa, the Special Envoy will also meet with representatives of the unarmed opposition and civil society, as he did in April 1999, both to listen to their views and to brief them on the ongoing and planned actions of the United Nations to contribute to the restoration of peace in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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