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UNITED NATIONS, July 15 (AFP) - A Rwandan national government of unity
will be sworn in Monday in Kigali, an official of the victorious rebel
Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) said here Friday.
Claude Dusaidi said that an investiture ceremony for the new government
will start at noon local time.
Diplomats with the UN Security Council said that they had been invited
to attend the ceremony.
Dusaidi said several political parties had signed on to the decision to
form "a broad-based government on national unity" in line with the
UN-backed agreement signed in 1993 in Arusha, Tanzania.
He added that no opposition was expected from the international
community to the new government.
The United Nations also announced that the RPF would declare a
unilateral ceasefire in the next 24 hours. Spokesman Fred Eckhard made
the announcement following a meeting between the UN representative to
Rwanda Shahryar Khan and RPF military chief Paul Kagame.
Meanwhile, France's deputy ambassador to the United Nations Herve
Ladsous called on the Security Council to propose steps for dealing
with members of Rwanda's former government who are seeking refuge in
the French-imposed protection zones in southwest Rwanda.
Members of the Hutu-dominated government fear retailation from the
minority Tutsis for the mass killings which began when the civil war
broke out April 6.
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