[NYTr] UN Welcomes Dem.Congo Peace Initiative

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Prensa Latina, Havana
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UN Salutes Democratic Congo Peace Initiative

United Nations, Dec 24 (Prensa Latina) UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon
welcomed on MOnday the peace initiative of the government of Democratic
Congo in the provinces of North Kivu and South Kivu, for security and
development.

A statement by Ban Ki-Moon circulated in the UN highlighted the
Kinshasa government's call to a meeting in those Congolese eastern
provinces, victims of the outbreak of armed confrontations.

The meeting can adopt significant steps to put an end to the suffering
of the population and establish a plan for security, stability and
progress in the region, said Ban Ki-Moon.

He also said the people of both provinces deserve a solution to the
conflicts, to end suffering and displacement, and he hopes the meeting
unifies the efforts of all the parties to turn reconstruction of
Democratic Congo in reality, calling the international community to
support these efforts.

The situation in the Democratic Congo eastern region was analyzed in
the UN Security Council last week, and that authority demanded from all
the groups under confrontation to lay down their weapons and
immediately stop children recruitment.

The UN High Commissioner for Refugees denounced that 170,000 people
have been forced to leave their homes in North Kivu since August, an
amount that has exceeded 400,000 since 2006.

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