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GENEVA, April 8 (Reuter) - U.N. Secretary-General Boutros-Boutros Ghali
said on Friday he was preparing an urgent report for the Security
Council on measures to protect U.N. personnel in Rwanda after the death
of 10 Belgian soldiers.
In a statement read by his spokeswoman in Geneva, he deplored the
deaths of Rwanda's prime minister as well as the 10 Belgians who were
serving as U.N. peacekeepers in Kigali.
The secretary-general is urgently preparing a report to the Security
Council on the measures to take so as to protect the U.N. personnel in
Rwanda,
the statement said.
U.N. sources said any decision on evacuating staff from Rwanda would be
taken directly by the secretary-general, who arrived in Geneva late on
Thursday for a five-day visit to the world body's European
headquarters.
The Security Council last week renewed for four months the mandate of
the 2,100 peacekeepers it has in Rwanda. There are believed to be
hundreds of other U.N. staff serving as volunteers or in refugee camps
across the country.
Boutros-Ghali's statement, referring to the murder of Prime Minister
Agathe Uwilingiyimana, said: The secretary-general firmly deplores
these acts of violence as well as odious attacks on members of the U.N.
assistance mission in Rwanda.
(c) Reuters Limited 1994
