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KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) - Uganda asked Sunday for international monitors to observe any cease-fire it reaches with the Lord's Resistance Army, which has led a brutal 19-year insurgency. Negotiations between the government and the rebel group are under way, but Uganda says it is waiting for a comprehensive peace deal before it agrees to a cease-fire.
Uganda's Interior Affairs Minister Ruhakana Rugunda said he wants the United States, the Netherlands, Norway and South Africa to be on a monitoring team, as well as the United Nations and the African Union.
The request is meant to "show the whole world that we are engaged genuinely in peace talks for an agreement to end the conflict in northern Uganda," Rugunda said.
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