18 NOV 98 - 14:18

Guinea-Bissau: Niger Ready to Participate in Peacekeeping Force

Niamey, Nov. 18 (Lusa) - The Niger parliament Tuesday approved the sending of a 500-strong contingent to Guinea-Bissau as part of a West African peacekeeping force to aid implementation of that country's peace accord.

Poor and landlocked, Niger requested financial backing from its partners in the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), the United Nations and the Organization of African Unity to help it carry out its peace-keeping role.

Under Bissau's peace agreement, ECOWAS will provide a military force of still undetermined size for deployment between governmenmt and rebel forces. Lusa/end

18 NOV 98 - 13:36

Guinea-Bissau: Major Road Reopened by Joint Commission

Bissau, Nov. 18 (Lusa) - The Joint Commission overseeing implementation of Guinea-Bissau's peace accord decided Tuesday to order the reopening of the road linking the capital to the town of Prabis, west of Bissau.

Blocked since the military revolt began last June, the reopned road will ease the return of refugees to Bissau and the supply of basic goods to interior populations. Lusa/end

18 NOV 98 - 13:25

Guinea-Bissau: Oppositionists Boycott Meeting with President

Bissau, Nov. 18 (Lusa) - Though boycotted by all Guinea-Bissau's opposition parties, President Nino Vieira Tuesday promised "100 percent" fulfillment of the country's peace accord.

Vieira's reaffirmation of commitment to the Nov. 2 peace agreement came after all five parliamentary opposition parties failed to show for a meeting he convened to discuss the formation of a transitional "national unity" government.

Only his ruling PAIGC party sent a representative to the meeting. Two of the opposition groups, the Bafata Movement and the Union for Change, had announced earlier that they would not participate because they did not recognize Vieira's authority to supervize the creation of the a cabinet, called for under the peace deal to oversee general elections by next March. Lusa/end

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