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For the UN to remain central to global politics, peace and security, it must take "effective action" to deal with threats to peace and security, the British Foreign Office minister for global issues, Bill Rammell, said on Thursday.

The Foreign and Commonwealth Office reported that Rammel was speaking after a meeting in London with the UN Under-Secretary for Peacekeeping Operations, Jean-Marie Guehenno.

Rammell said it was Britain's desire to see a resolution to the conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), and that Britain was committed to helping achieve this objective.