Quadripartite committee on Rwanda/Uganda conflict makes 'significant progress': President Tshisekedi

Kinshasa, DR Congo (PANA) - The committee set up to resolve the conflict between Rwanda and Uganda has made "significant progress", the President of DR Congo, Felix Tshisekedi, has said.

He was speaking at the cabinet meeting in Kinshasa, on the Uganda-Rwanda-Angola-DRC quadripartite, which held another meeting in Luanda.

According to the government spokesman, Minister of Communication and Media, Jolino Makele, this progress includes the setting up of an ad hoc commission to gather the views of both parties and the setting of a meeting scheduled for 21 February in Gatuna/Katuna on the border between Rwanda and Uganda.

President Tshisekedi has taken the initiative to get involved in this conflict in order to restore the understanding between the two Presidents.

He said Africa must at all costs seek peace in order to turn resolutely towards the development which its people aspire.

The quadripartite meeting agreed that the two parties would refrain from any acts that might give rise to the perception of support, financing, training and infiltration of destabilizing forces in a neighbouring territory; and that the activities of the Ad-Hoc Commission would be maintained as a mechanism for monitoring the implementation of the process.

A memorandum of understanding on security and cooperation in the Great Lakes region was concluded on 21 August 2019.

The quadripartite meeting brought together the Heads of State of Angola, João Lourenço, Félix Tshisekedi of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Paul Kagame of Rwanda and Yoweri Museveni of Uganda.
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