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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group

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To: Ilaine who wrote (91150)4/8/2003 8:55:22 AM
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What is the UN for if things like this happen and nobody raises an outcry or trys to garner support for intervention? I thought that was the point of the UN?

The UN is aware of the Congo situation (see appended quote; many more articles on linked page) but doesn't have the means to improve it (my interpretation):

DR of Congo: UN mission deplores latest round of rebel violence
un.org

31 March – The United Nations mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has denounced as "incomprehensible and unjustifiable" a rebel group's provocative assault on and recapture of two small eastern towns from a rival faction within hours of signing an agreement on the country's future military structure. ...
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