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Disarmament of ex-combatants begins
Democratic Republic of the Congo - Officials in the Democratic Republic of the Congo began on Thursday a programme to disarm, demobilise and reintegrate some 330,000 former combants in the east of the country.
"We are obviously aware of the central role the DDR [Disarmament, Demobilisation and Reintegration] will play in the peace process," said Julia Taft, the UN Development Programme's assistant administrator and director of the Bureau for Crisis Prevention and Recovery.
She added, "However, this role depends on the conditions that will prevail and the decisions that will be taken in the security sector, particularly that which concerns the integration of the army and political structures."