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- Liberian ULIMO Reaffirms Policy On ECOMOG
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- <hdr>
- Foreign Broadcast Information Service, April 9, 1992
- Liberia: ULIMO Reaffirms Policy on ECOMOG
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- <body>
- <p>[Paris AFP in English 1514 GMT 7 Apr 92]
- </p>
- <p> [Excerpts] Monrovia, April 7 (AFP)--Liberia's ULIMO rebels
- stated Tuesday [7 April] they will not relinquish "liberated
- areas" in the country to West African peacekeeping troops
- posted in and around Monrovia.
- </p>
- <p> The United Liberation Movement for Democracy in Liberia
- (ULIMO) said a peace accord agreed reached last year had
- "failed" because rival rebels in Charles Taylor's National
- Patriotic Front (NPFL) had refused to disarm. [passage omitted]
- </p>
- <p> The rebel movement said that because of Taylor's "blatant
- refusal" to abide by the accord reached in Yamoussoukro, Ivory
- Coast, which provided for the encampment and disarming of rival
- faction by January 15.
- </p>
- <p> ULIMO warned troops of the ECOMOG [Economic Community of
- West African States Cease-Fire Monitoring Group] West African
- peacekeeping force, sent to Liberia in August 1990, not to
- enter its territory under the pretext of deploying troops or
- setting up a buffer zone, and warned that "anyone doing so will
- be considered an intruder."
- </p>
- <p> "ULIMO forces have reached a point of no return, and will do
- everything to flush Taylor and his bandits out of Liberia by
- force of arms," the statement said.
- </p>
- </body>
- </article>
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