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KIGALI, April 14 (Reuter) - Rwandan army units and advancing rebels
battled with heavy gunfire in and around Kigali on Thursday for the
second day running.
Mortar and heavy artillery shells boomed around the capital's lush
hills hours after the United Nations said the two side had promised to
discuss a ceasefire.
The rebels denied U.N. reports of ceasefire talks.
We are not going to negotiate a ceasefire with anyone,
said Rwanda
Patriotic Front spokesman Wilson Rutayisire.
In New York, Security Council President Colin Keating of New Zealand
said late on Wednesday that the RPF and a recently-installed interim
government, most of whose members have fled the city, would meet under
U.N. auspices in the capital later in the day.
Belgian paratroopers, protecting the French School evacuation point,
pulled out overnight and some 100 looters moved in to grab what was
left of fleeing foreigners' possession.
(c) Reuters Limited 1994
