51.   The UN Security Council Thursday authorized the deployment of a multinational peacekeeping force to Kabul and surrounding areas tasked with ensuring the proper functioning the interim government.

52.   The United States on Thursday hailed the unanimous adoption by the UN Security Council of a resolution authorizing the deployment of a multinational peacekeeping force for Afghanistan.

53.   Under the compromise, they would approve the resolution authorizing the deployment of the force, but leave until later a decision on funding, the sources said.

54.   RPF chairman Alexis Kanyarengwe warned Tuesday in a radio broadcast that the front would not recognize any UN resolution authorizing the deployment of French troops.

55.   That would exclude the United Nations, except to broadly authorize the deployment of the NATO force, US officials.

56.   The draft authorizes the deployment of a French-led multinational force for two months after its adoption.

57.   The French deployment is authorized under the terms of a UN Security Council resolution, which allows the troops to use force if required to protected threatened populations.