The EU has welcomed the cease-fire in the Democratic Republic of Congo…

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Series Details 15/08/99, Volume 5, Number 28
Publication Date 15/07/1999
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Date: 15/07/1999

...and pledged to offer help in bringing lasting peace to the war-torn central African state. A deal reached last week by the region's heads of state calls for an end to the fighting between rebels and the forces of President Laurent Kabila and for the deployment of peacekeepers. EU countries have yet to decide what reconstruction aid to offer the country or whether to contribute to peacekeeping forces.

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