The UK and French foreign ministers have backed peace talks amongst regional leaders in Africa aimed at preventing a deterioration of the ongoing humanitarian crisis in the Congo.
"The crisis, even if averted in the short term, will return without a new, vigorous and united political effort," British foreign minister David Miliband and his French counterpart, Bernard Kouchner, said in a joint statement issued on Sunday (2 November) in Tanzania.
The ministers, acting as European Un...
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