Meeting Held to Decide Date for Lusaka Summit on Congo PeaceDelegates from five African countries involving in the Congolese conflict are holding a meeting Monday in Lusaka to decide whether to convene the summit meeting scheduled for Tuesday in Lusaka.The Zambian News Agency quoted a delegate as saying at the Mulungushi international conference center that the meeting is expected to set the agenda for the heads of state summit, which will be attended by presidents from Zimbabwe, Angola and Namibia, which support the government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), and Uganda and Rwanda, which support rebels in the DRC. The delegate said on condition of anonymity that the meeting would go into the early hours of the night, after which it would be known if the summit to be attended by the heads of state and government will be held on Tuesday or on another date to be agreed on. Rwanda President Paul Kagame told reporters in the country's capital Kigali on Sunday that he would not travel to Zambia. The summit is intended to revive the Lusaka peace agreement, which was signed in August 1999 to end the DRC conflict. The assassination of former DRC president Laurent Kabila and the enthronement of his son General Joseph Kabila have brought renewed hope among belligerents and international observers for rekindling the Lusaka peace agreement. |
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