DRC rebels M23 ready to dialogue with Ugandan President
(AFP) - 11 hours ago KINSHASA - Rebels of the March 23 Movement (M23), who face the army since May in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, are ready to meet President Yoweri Museveni to find a solution to the crisis, has on Monday with the armed group. Saturday, a mini-summit of the International Conference on the Great Lakes region should define the contours of a neutral peacekeeping force. The meeting, the third of its kind in two months, finally ended without concrete progress. However, the Conference mandated the President Museveni to "continue discussions" with the parties in conflict, according to the Rwandan Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mushikiwabo. "We welcome this initiative from His Excellency Yoweri Museveni to negotiate with us. We will sit down with him to present to our specifications," he told AFP Lieutenant Colonel Vianney Kazarama, spokesman of the Movement March 23. "We expect our extraordinary congress" planned this week "that will meet the high command, the military officers and members of the political bureau of the M23 to make a decision on what will be in our specifications," at he said. The objective of the dialogue is announced to find a political solution to avoid the use of force. Ugandan President a "combined hard to convince the heads of state and that there is other way than dialogue. (...) We would like the head of state Joseph Kabila was there. He must be there, we talk to him, "insisted the spokesman M23. After leaving the mutineers opportunity to return to the army, Kinshasa has hardened the tone and refused any negotiation with recalcitrant. The M23 has also called for civil society and opposition attended the dialogue to "empty completely the problem of the crisis," but they do not hide their animosity towards the rebel movement, which they blamed for many atrocities (murders , looting, racketeering ...). Asked about whether or not a dialogue that would include Rwandan President Paul Kagame - absent the Kampala summit, unlike Joseph Kabila - the rebel group found his presence unnecessary. "No, no. It depends on the willingness of Kinshasa and Uganda mediator, but we do not have a problem with the Rwandans. Matters is that President Kabila is there (...) because the problem is Congo-DRC, "he said. Rwanda has accused the DRC to support the M23, but Kigali denies. The mini-summit on Saturday in Kampala concluded that the neutral force to be deployed to eradicate armed groups in eastern DRC chronically unstable will be operational in three months, under the mandate of the African Union and the UN . It should be particularly dam M23 and the Democratic Liberation Forces of Rwanda (FDLR), a Hutu rebellion fought by Kigali for his alleged involvement in the genocide in Rwanda in 1994, and who commits abuses against the people of the region for years . The major part of the soldiers are from the M23 Congolese rebel National Congress for the Defence of the People (CNDP), charged at the time of being backed by Rwanda and integrated into the army in 2009 after a peace agreement with Kinshasa, they demanded full implementation. Copyright © 2012 AFP. All rights reserved. <http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/copyright?hl=fr> More » Thé Mulindwas Communication Group "With Yoweri Museveni and Dr. Kiiza Besigye Uganda is in anarchy" Kuungana Mulindwa Mawasiliano Kikundi "Pamoja na Yoweri Museveni na Dk. Kiiza Besigye Uganda ni katika machafuko"
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