--- On Tue, 9/6/09, Akujo Amonye <[email protected]> wrote:
From: Akujo Amonye <[email protected]> Subject: Fw: [email protected] has sent you a New Vision News Article! To: "kadara kursum" <[email protected]> Date: Tuesday, 9 June, 2009, 3:50 PM We are peaceful souls. ----- Forwarded Message ---- From: New Vision Online Division <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, 9 June, 2009 15:26:10 Subject: [email protected] has sent you a New Vision News Article! Hi there! [email protected] thought you might be interested in this article from The New Vision online: http://www.newvision.co.ug They also added this comment: "" Refer Congo border dispute to the UN Once again, a border dispute has flared up between Uganda and its western neighbour, the Democratic Republic of Congo. The latest row erupted after the Congolese started constructing a Police post and deployed armed forces in a contested area near the Ugandan custom post of Goli in Nebbi district. Earlier, in May 2008, Congolese authorities shifted their border post from 5km to within 200m of the Ugandan crossing point. They erected a barrier and planted a ‘welcome’ signpost in an area known to be no-man’s land. Yet, an agreement had been reached at the highest level to once and for all deal with the recurrent border disputes, which had led to the killing of a British oil worker in Lake Albert in August 2007. In the Ngurdoto-Tanzania Agreement of September 8, 2007, Presidents Yoweri Museveni and Joseph Kabila reaffirmed their commitment to “respect the principle of inviolability of borders as inherited from the colonial powers”. They agreed to carry out a joint remarking of the international boundary as defined in the 1915 agreement between the United Kingdom and Belgium. “The parties agree to set up a joint team of experts within one month from the date of this agreement to work out the modalities of carrying out the task,” the Ngurdoto agreement read. However, almost two years – and two border disputes – later, the remarking exercise has not even started, neither has a joint team of experts been set up. Word has it that the Congolese government has not yet committed the funds for the exercise, but there has been no official communication from Kinshasa on the delay. The public is rightly becoming skeptical about such agreements, signed with much ado at extravagant presidential summits, only to end up being another worthless piece of paper. If the two countries are unwilling or incapable to solve such a simple but potentially explosive issue, the UN or the International Court of Justice should be called in before the dispute gets out of hand and innocent people suffer — in lost trade or lost lives. You can also read the article online at: http://www.newvision.co.ug/detail.php?mainNewsCategoryId=8&newsCategoryId=14&newsId=684015
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