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UNITED NATIONS, July 17 (AFP) - France blamed the Tutsi-led rebel
Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) for exacerbating the situation in Rwanda
and the area around the Zairean border town of Goma.
In a letter sent Sunday to the Security Council president, French UN
charge d'affaires Herve Ladsous wrote that artillery fire from the east
had left about 60 dead in the region around Goma.
That artillery fire was from Rwanda and probably at the initiative of
RPF forces,
he wrote.
After a new advance Sunday, the French government also again warned the
RPF not to infiltrate the safe haven in southwest Rwanda controlled by
French troops.
French forces will continue to oppose, as has been said since the
beginning, any entry by armed individuals whatever their origin may
be,
Ladsous wrote.
The situation in Rwanda was expected to be taken up by the Security
Council in consultations, diplomats said.
