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Kronologi over fredssagen og international politik 10. februar 2005 / Time Line February 10, 2005
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02/10/2005
DRC: Katanga militias agree to disarm
KINSHASA, 10 February (IRIN) - Leaders of two Mayi-Mayi militia
groups in the southeastern province of Katanga in the Democratic
Republic of Congo (DRC) agreed on Tuesday to disarm their
combatants during a ceremonial destruction of weapons in the
provincial capital, Lubumbashi.
"I am now ready to bring in 20,000 of my children [combatants] to
be integrated into the national army," the head of the largest
militia, Mbayo Mpiana Mwana Butot, known as Sobribet de
Chinzachinza, told IRIN.
An estimated 30 percent of Chinzachinza's combatants are
children.
Another militia leader who also attended the ceremony, Bakanda
Baroka, controls an estimated 7,000 militiamen.
The weapons destroyed on Tuesday included 540 AK-47 rifles, one
machine gun with a viewfinder, 156 grenades and 20 poison
arrows.
The weapons were handed to a Congolese NGO, Paix et
Reconciliation (PAREC). "In exchange, we provided 800 bikes,"
Pastor Ngoyi Mulunda, who runs PAREC, said.
However, he said, "There are still a lot of arms that haven't been
recovered". Chinzachinza's militia is estimated to still hold
20,000 weapons.
02/10/2005
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, Feb. 10, 2005 -- The Army is asking Operation Iraqi
Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom veterans to volunteer for a
new mission.
However, this time the mission is not overseas, but right in their
own hometown as part of the Special Recruiter Assistance
Program.
The Army wants OIF and OEF veterans to go to their local
communities to talk about life in the military and their
experiences in Iraq and Afghanistan. This, official say, is an
effort to raise awareness about the military, while at the same
time encouraging young adults to join the Army...
02/10/2005
All NATO Allies to Join Iraq Training Mission by Feb. 22
By John D. Banusiewicz
American Forces Press Service
NICE, France, Feb. 10, 2005 - All NATO allies will be part of the
alliance's mission of training Iraqi forces by the time the
alliance's heads of state converge for a major summit meeting Feb.
22, Secretary-General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer said here today.
He spoke at a news conference during informal meetings of NATO
defense ministers that began Feb. 9 and conclude today.
Scheffer said that by the time the summit begins, all 26 NATO
nations would be conducting training inside or outside Iraq, or
contributing money to the training mission's trust fund. The
secretary-general took a bottom-line approach when asked if France
would participate as a member of the alliance or through bilateral
arrangements.
"Who does what, exactly - and we know there are allies training
inside and there are allies training outside Iraq - is, I must say,
not of great concern to me," Scheffer said. All 26 nations have
supported the mission politically, he added.
NATO's transformation agenda was a key topic of discussion, the
secretary-general said. "We looked at how to ensure deeper
consultation on possible troop operations to ensure the broadest
possible political support for those operations," he said. "We
discussed establishing a longer-term and more comprehensive
approach to force iteration to ensure more predictability in what
forces are available when we need them. And if we need them, the
forces we have available should be ... usable forces - forces we
can really need in our operations."...
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