A CONTINGENT of 115 Moroccan troops arrived in the eastern city of Goma on Saturday to take part in the UN Observer Mission (MONUC) in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The troops joined an initial contingent of just over 100 Moroccans who arrived on Thursday. The arrival of the forces completes the deployment of UN observers in territory under the control of the Congolese Rally for Democracy (RCD), which is backed by the government of neighbouring Rwanda. “We see no obstacle to the arrival of the Moroccan blue helmets in Goma. They are welcome,” RCD spokesman Kin Key Mulumba told AFP from Goma earlier in the week. Eventually some 3,000 peacekeepers are to be deployed in the DRC to back up about 500 military observers whose job will be to monitor a ceasefire signed in 1999.