Museveni Contacts Libya Over Kony
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New Vision (Kampala)
June 26, 2004
Posted to the web June 28, 2004
Henry Mukasa and Hamis Kaheru
Kampala
PRESIDENT Yoweri Museveni has contacted several heads of state who might have contacts
or influence regarding the Lord's Resistance Army rebel leader, Joseph Kony.
Defence state minister Ruth Nankabirwa told Parliament on Thursday that Museveni had
contacted Libya president Col. Muammar Gadaffi, who in turn talked to Sudan leader
Gen. Omar Bashir "who is very influential in this war."
"He (Museveni) has gone through his fellow heads of state and it has yielded some
results," Nankabirwa said. "Negotiation isn't a tug-of-war. You must penetrate the two
camps fighting and agree on the venue and the mediator. You cannot sit in Parliament
and dictate issues concerning negotiations," Nankabirwa emphasised.
The minister was reacting to comments by Lubaga South MP Ken Lukyamuzi that the
Government should name a new northern war peace team since the old one is
dysfunctional, with some members out of government and others in exile.
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