South Africa and the UN have announced the establishment of a joint secretariat to implement the July peace agreement between the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Rwanda.
In a joint communique issued at UN headquarters in New York on Friday, they said two UN and four South African representatives would serve in the secretariat. The UN officials will be the deputy special representative of the secretary-general for the DRC, and the deputy force commander of the UN Mission in the DRC, known as MONUC. The South African officials will be the security adviser to the president, the foreign affairs adviser to president, the chief director for Central Africa and the special representative for the Department of Defence.
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