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KINSHASA, Friday � Moustapha Niasse, the special envoy of United
Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan for the peace process in the
Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), has said a transitional national
government could be in place between the end of March and early April.
�God willing, and if no new obstacles are put in the way, I
believe that by the end of March or early April, a national unity
government presided (over) by the head of state, Joseph Kabila, will be in
place here in Kinshasa in accordance with the global and inclusive accord
signed by all parties to the inter-Congolese dialogue on December 17, 2002
in Pretoria, South Africa,� Niasse told IRIN on Thursday.
Niasse
arrived in Kinshasa, the DRC capital, on Tuesday on a new mission
conferred on him by Annan in January.
�I completed the first
mission on December 17, 2002 when a global and inclusive accord was signed
by all parties to the inter-Congolese dialogue,� Niasse said.
�My
new mission consists, first of all, of helping all signatories of the
Pretoria accord to create an environment and to employ mechanisms and
measures that should enable us to implement this agreement, and second of
all, of reconvening the technical committees responsible for addressing
the issues of a restructured and integrated national army, the security of
leaders of the new transitional government institutions, in Kinshasa and
in the provinces, and the drafting of a transitional government
constitution by a committee to be based in Pretoria,� Niasse said.
He discussed his plan and his schedule with Kabila during a
meeting on Wednesday. On Thursday, Niasse flew to the northwestern town of
Gbadolite, the headquarters of Jean-Pierre Bemba�s Ugandan-backed
Mouvement de liberation du Congo rebel group.
On Friday, Niasse is
due to travel to the eastern city of Goma for talks with leaders of the
Rwandan-backed Rassemblement congolais pour la democratie-Goma, before
returning to Kinshasa to meet on Saturday and Sunday the representatives
of the unarmed political opposition, civil society, Mayi-Mayi militias,
and the RCD-Kisangani/Mouvement de liberation, a rebel group based in Beni
that is allied to Kabila�s government.
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