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Kinshasa, Bangui agree on technical and military cooperation

Kinshasa, Bangui agree on technical, military cooperation

 

Kinshasa, DR Congo (PANA) -  The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Central African Republic Thursday signed a draft agreement on technical and military cooperation, said a joint communiqué issued here at the end of a visit by the CAR Minister of Defence Marie Noëlle Koyara.

According to the same sources, the two parties agreed on several points for the strengthening of relations of friendship and fraternity as well as military cooperation between the two countries.

The securization of their 1,700 kilometer-long common border was also on the agenda of the talks between the two parties.

As a prelude to the meeting in March in the South African city of Pretoria between African Union army chiefs of staff on the theme: “Silencing the guns on the African soil by the year 2023”, the two parties also agreed that the army chief of staff of the CAR armed forces travel to Kinshasa in a bid to prepare for the assets and establishment of common viewpoints for that high level military meeting.  

The two parties also looked at the continuation of tripartite “thoughts” between the Democratic Republic of Congo-Central African Republic and South Sudan.

At the end of his talks with the minister of defence and ex-combatants, the CAR delegation visited several infrastructures and big military schools.

These were the Commandment and Army staff school (ECEM), the higher military administration school (ESAM), the college of high strategy and defence studies (CHESD).

During his visit to Kinshasa, the CAR delegation was also received by Prime Minister Sylvestre Ilunga Ilunkamba before paying a courtesy call on the vice-prime minister, minister of the Interior, security and customs affairs, Gilbert Kankonde Malamba.

A joint communiqué was signed by Mrs Marie Noëlle Koyara for the CAR side and by the Congolese minister of defence, Aimé Ngoi Mukena, assisted by the deputy-minister to the minister of defence, in charge of ex-combatants, Sylvain Mutombo Kabinga.

 

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