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| | Online NewsHour: Richard Holbrooke -- May 16, 2000 |
 | | RICHARD HOLBROOKE: The Security Council has to make some very big decisions in Africa, and the secretary-general, Kofi Annan, has to decide whether to move forward with the next phase of the peacekeeping observer mission in the Congo. |
 | | RICHARD HOLBROOKE: The interesting thing, Ray, was that for various reasons, every single leader we met with, no matter what their internal differences, was literally begging the outside world, the U.N., to come in and put some peacekeeping observers on the ground in order to stabilize the situation. |
 | | RICHARD HOLBROOKE: You know, Ray, of all the wars that we have witnessed in recent years - and we've seen a lot of small regional wars - this is arguably the most senseless, the most tragic. |
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