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| | ABC News: Annan renews appeal for troops in Congo's Katanga (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) |
 | | Annan had asked the 15-nation U.N. Security Council for the additional soldiers in August to help Katanga, rich in gold and copper, prepare for elections, beginning with a referendum on a new constitution by the end of the year. |
 | | But the United States, which pays for over 25 percent of the operation, has made clear its opposition to adding peacekeepers to a mission now costing some $1 billion a year for nearly 17,000 troops in the vast central African country. |
 | | Some 11 million people have registered to vote nationwide to date among the 30 million eligible, a record in the Democratic Republic of Congo, a country still beset by violence, poverty and hunger. |
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