Creation of a joint DRC/Rwanda military operation to target ethnic Rwandan Hutu militias

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United Nations, New York, 28 January 2009: Daily Briefing by the Office of the Spokesperson for the Secretary-General. Alan Doss, the Secretary-Generals Special Representative for the Democratic Republic of the Congo, has formally accepted an invitation by the Congolese government to contribute a planning and liaison team to a joint DRC/Rwanda military operation. The operation targets ethnic Rwandan Hutu militias based in the eastern DRC. 

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View the complete briefing (23 minutes, Real Media):

http://webcast.un.org/ramgen/ondemand/pressbriefing/2009/brief090128.rm

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