Congo-Kinshasa: EU Calls for More Deployment in Country

4 November 2008

Dar es Salaam — British Foreign Secretary David Miliband and French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner held talks with President Jakaya Kikwete in Tanzania on Saturday to discuss the deteriorating security situation in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

During the meeting with Mr Kikwete who currently chairs the African Union and France, that holds the European Union chair urged the United Nations to deploy more soldiers in Congo to combat the violence which has seen more than 1.6 million people displaced.

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