RWANDA/DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO: U.N ENVOY RICHARD HOLBROOKE VISITS RWANDA TO REVIVE CEASEFIRE /U.N. PEACEKEEPERS TRY TO INSPIRE CONFIDENCE

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  • Title: RWANDA/DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO: U.N ENVOY RICHARD HOLBROOKE VISITS RWANDA TO REVIVE CEASEFIRE /U.N. PEACEKEEPERS TRY TO INSPIRE CONFIDENCE
  • Date: 9th December 1999
  • Summary: KIGALI, RWANDA (DECEMBER 9, 1999) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. SLV U.S. AMBASSADOR TO THE UNITED NATIONS (U.N.) RICHARD HOLBROOKE ARRIVING AT AIRPORT 0.05 2. SLV HOLBROOKE ARRIVING AT GENOCIDE MEMORIAL 0.10 3. SV HOLBROOKE LAYING WREATH TO GENOCIDE VICTIMS 0.15 4. SLV HOLBROOKE STANDING IN FRONT OF MEMORIAL 0.19 5. SCU (SOUNDBITE) (English) US AMBASSADOR RICHARD HOLBROOKE SAYING: "We reiterate our strong support for the Lusaka process and our support to the joint military commission (JMC), while noteing that we were concerned that the Lusaka process was not being fully implemented and that the JMC had not gone off to a very fast start." 0.48 GOMA, REBEL HELD EASTERN RDC (DECEMBER 9, 1999) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 6. SLV U.N. MISSION HEADQUARTERS GUARDED BY REBEL MILITARY POLICE 0.53 7. SV U.N. SOLDIERS LOOKING AT MAP 0.58 8. CU MAP SHOWING RWANDA AND NEIGBOURING COUNTRIES 1.02 KIGALI, RWANDA (DECEMBER 9, 1999) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 9. SCU (SOUNDBITE) (English) HOLBROOKE SAYING: "We reaffirmed the United States desire to support the U.N. peace keeping efforts in Congo.I questioned then after the great calamities that the United nations suffered in the early nineties in Somalia, Bosnia and Rwanda, that we have to get it right this time." 1.29 GOMA, REBEL HELD EASTERN RDC (DECEMBER 9, 1999) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 10. SLV LIEUTENANT COLONEL R.K. NAIR (INDIA), HEAD OF MONUC MISSION IN GOMA WALKING WITH U.N. SOLDIERS 1.38 11. SCU (SOUNDBITE) (English) LIEUTENANT COLONEL R.K. NAIR (INDIA), HEAD OF MONUC MISSION IN GOMA SAYING: "It is very important that the primary responsibilities for a successful implementation of the Lusaka agreement lays entirely with the signatory parties and the U.N. is just committed to provide its good offices to help implement this peace process." 1.57 12. SV NAIR INSPECTING LAKE KIVU 2.03 13. SCU OF UNITED NATIONS AND SENEGALESE BADGES ON UNIFORM 2.08 14. SCU (SOUNDBITE) (English) NAIR SAYING: " We are very concerned with the development which have taken place for the past few days--where both the MLC troops and the RCD troops are advancing. To a certain extend there is a break in the cease fire." 2.24 15. SLV STREET SCENES IN GOMA 2.29 16. SLV PEOPLE IN STREET 2.34 17. SLV STREET MARKET WITH STALLS 2.39 18. SCU (SOUNDBITE) (French) BINDU LUBAO, MARKET STALL RETAILER, 23, SAYING: "We know that as long as he cease fire will not be respected, the U.N. troops will come come here. We have lost confidence because the cease fire is not respected here , neither on the rebel held side, nor by the Kinshasa side. Both sides are violating the cease fire. It is why we do not trust the Lusaka agreement anymore." 2.55 19. SCU (SOUNDBITE) (French) LOCAL JULIEN BODALI SAYING: "I do not trust the U.N. at all. We know what happened in Rwanda. The U.N was there, but did not act. There has been a genocide in Rwanda." 3.12 20. SLV RCD REBELS IN TOWN 3.16 21. SLV U.N. SOLDIERS TALKING TO REBEL SOLDIERS 3.21 22. RCD REBEL SOLDIERS 3.26 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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  • Location: KIGALI, RWANDA AND GOMA, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO
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  • Country: Congo, Democratic Republic of
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