By The Citizen Reporter
Posted Tuesday, September 24 2013 at 21:48
Posted Tuesday, September 24 2013 at 21:48
In Summary
Rwanda has been fighting the Democratic Forces
for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDRL) that it accuses of being responsible
for the 1994 Genocide.
New York. President Jakaya Kikwete and his
Rwandan counterpart attended a UN-organised conference on finding
lasting peace in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
The Regional Oversight Mechanism of the Peace,
Security and Cooperation Framework for the DRC and the region meeting
sought to review developments in the implementation of the Great Lakes
peace accord.
The two leaders, who recently fell out over
Rwandan and Ugandan rebels operating from the DRC, were also joined by
other leaders from the region including President Joseph Kabila and
Yoweri Museveni of the DRC and Uganda respectively.
Tanzania and Rwanda fell-out in May after
President Kikwete advised during the first UN Conference on Great Lakes
region in Addis Ababa that the latter along with Uganda should negotiate
with rebel groups fighting the two countries from the DRC.
Rwanda has been fighting the Democratic Forces for
the Liberation of Rwanda (FDRL) that it accuses of being responsible
for the 1994 Genocide.
President Kagame has vowed never to negotiate with
the FDRL rebels, and he, therefore, never took kindly President
Kikwete’s suggestion. In his speech, on Monday in New York, President
Kikwete mobilised fellow leaders to do whatever it takes to make sure
peace returns to DRC because it was the “right of the Congolese to live
in peace, the right to live without wars.”
“It is imperative that every nation fulfils what
we committed ourselves to do to end the Congo crisis. Congolese have
suffered for so long. It is time the war ended so that our fellow human
beings could start living in peace,” President Kikwete told the second
UN Conference on the Congo crisis officiated by UN Secretary General Ban
Ki moon and attended by the chairperson of the Southern African
Development Corporation (Sadc) and Malawian President Joyce Banda.
SOURCE: THE CITIZEN
SOURCE: THE CITIZEN
