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RDC: treve immunitarire - DRC: vaccination truce

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REPUBLIQUE DEMOCRATIQUE DU CONGO:
Treve immunitaire dans "la plupart" des regions

Les parties au conflit de RDC ont cesse' le feu dans la plupart des regions du pays afin de permettre a' quelque 10 millions d'enfants d'etre vaccines le prochain week-end contre la poliomyelite, a annonce' l'ONU dans un communique' publie' hier mardi a' New York.
Le Secretaire general de l'ONU, Kofi Annan, avait appele' au respect de quelques "jours de tranquillite" pour permettre l'immunisation, et selon le communique' parvenu a' IRIN, il a recu de la part du President Laurent-Desire' Kabila et des chefs de file de la rebellion l'assurance qu'ils deposeraient les armes.
Meme si des affrontements isoles se poursuivent ici ou la', les organismes d'assistance estiment que la campagne sera en mesure de toucher plus de 95 pour cent des enfants de moins de cinq ans, ajoute l'ONU.

Des volontaires vont tenir les quelque 16 000 postes d'immunisation a' travers le pays, avec l'aide de l'UNICEF et de l'OMS, les deux institutions specialisees de l'ONU a' la pointe de la campagne pour l'eradication de la poliomyelite de la surface de la planete d'ici la fin de l'an 2000. La transmission virale en RDC est la plus intense du monde, indique le communique'. "Dans notre tentative d'eradication, il nous faut atteindre les enfants qui se trouve dans les poches d'agitation et de conflit," selon les propos pretes a' la Directrice generale de l'OMS, Gro-Harlem Brundtland. "Si nous manquons un seul village, nous echouerons."

DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO:
Vaccination truce in "most" areas

Warring parties in the DRC have stopped fighting in most areas of the country so that some 10 million children can be vaccinated against polio during the coming weekend, a statement from UN headquarters in New York said on Tuesday.
The statement, received by IRIN, said UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, who had appealed for "Days of Tranquility" to allow immunisation to go ahead, had received assurances from DRC President Laurent-Desire Kabila and rebel leaders that they would lay down their weapons.
Even with continued localised fighting, relief agencies believe that the campaign can reach over 95 percent of children under five years, the statement said.

Volunteers will staff some 16,000 immunisation posts throughout the country with the support of UNICEF and WHO - the UN agencies spearheading efforts to eradicate polio from the world by the end of the year 2000. The DRC has the most intense virus transmission in the world, the statement said.
"In the eradication effort we need to gain access to children in pockets of unrest and strife," WHO Director-General Gro Harlem Brundtland was quoted as saying.
"If we miss a single village we will fail," Brundtland said.

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