04/08/2003 (Agence Europe) - French and Belgian defence ministers, Michèle Alliot-Marie and André Flahaut, briefly visited Bunia in the Ituri district of the Democratic Republic of Congo on 2 August, where the EU has been deploying 1,850 soldiers in the Artemis operation (1500 from France, 100 from the UK, 70 from Sweden and 50 from Belgium) since June 2003). Alliot-Marie told the French TV channel TV5 that the operation was a model for the Rapid Reaction Force the EU will be creating...