Canadian General, Zaire Rebel Chief Meet
A Canadian general met with Zaire’s rebel leader Thursday to discuss how to deliver food to Rwandan refugees stuck in rebel-held parts of eastern Zaire.
Canadian Lt. Gen. Maurice Baril, head of the proposed multinational intervention force, and rebel leader Laurent Kabila met for an hour at Lake Kivu.
Meanwhile, thousands of new refugees streamed into Sake, west of Goma, where they were picked up by U.N. aid agency trucks and driven to the Rwandan border.
The United States has said it would support Canada’s plan for a multinational force based in Uganda to coordinate relief deliveries. But the U.S. had reservations about a proposal to airdrop relief supplies in Zaire--it fears that the supplies would instead go to Hutu militants.
In Ottawa, Foreign Minister Lloyd Axworthy said about 20 nations have agreed to participate in the multinational force, and that those nations will meet today to finalize the plan.
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