THE Security Council issued a mild rebuke Tuesday to rebels who prevented UN peacekeepers from landing in the DRC, and said diplomacy should resolve the problem. The peacekeepers, a contingent of about 120 Moroccan soldiers, were still in Bangui, capital of the Central African Republic, but a UN officer there said he expected them to be allowed into the DRC within days. The troops were turned back on Sunday by the Congolese Rally for Democracy (RCD), a Rwandan-backed rebel group, when they tried to land at Kisangani, the third largest city in the DRC. The president of the Security Council, Jeremy Greenstock, told reporters that the rebel action contravened council resolutions and the agreement of the parties to the war in DRC to the deployment of UN observers. – AFP