Annan Meets With Rwandan President on Peace Process in DRCUN Secretary-General Kofi Annan Wednesday met with Rwandan President Paul Kagame on the peace process in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).The UN spokesman's office said the secretary-general told the Rwandan president at the meeting that the United Nations was reassessing the situation in and around the DRC. Annan said the president of the DRC, Joseph Kabila, would need the cooperation of the countries of the region to revive the peace process, the spokesman's office said. President Kagame said that he agreed there was a new momentum towards peace, and emphasized three core issues: the inter- Congolese dialogue, the question of former Rwandan militia based inside the DRC and the need to withdraw all foreign forces from the DRC, the spokesman's office added. Kagame was here at the UN headquarters in New York for a visit. He was also invited to attend an open meeting of the United Nations Security Council on the situation in the Great Lakes region in Africa. Kagame promised his country has the desire to fulfill all its obligations as demanded by the 1999 Lusaka accord. Annan's meeting with the Rwandan president came days after his meeting with the new president of the DRC, Joseph Kabila, last week. At the United Nations, Joseph Kabila, who succeeded his father Laurent Kabila as the president of the DRC after Laurent was assassinated by one of his bodyguards last month, pledged to respect the Lusaka accord and move the peace process forward. He also urged withdrawal of all foreign forces from the DRC. |
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