DRC and Rwanda reached an agreement on Saturday, October 12, on the activities and responsibilities contained in the harmonized plan for the neutralization of the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR) and the disengagement of forces.
This agreement is the result of the ministerial meeting between the two countries, facilitated by Angola, which took place on Saturday in Luanda, (Angola). This agreement also provides for the lifting of Rwanda's defense measures, specifies a press release from the Congolese Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
To this end, the parties have mandated experts to draw up a detailed plan for the implementation of the Harmonized Plan, the report of which will have to be analyzed at the next ministerial meeting to be held on a date to be agreed, adds the same source.
During the meeting, the ministers reviewed the latest events since their last ministerial session on September 14, 2024, and urged the parties to the conflict to respect the ceasefire of August 4 this year.
Finally, the ministers also agreed to continue working on the pending security issues contained in the draft peace agreement proposed by the facilitator, Angolan President João Lourenço, Angop reports.
Rwanda, whose armed forces are present in the DRC in support of the M23 rebels, " makes its withdrawal from Congolese soil conditional on the neutralization of the FDLR ," the head of Congolese diplomacy revealed to the UN Security Council in New York on October 8.
This agreement reached on the harmonized plan for the neutralization of the FDLR and disengagement of forces is an important step in the peace process between the two countries.
The Congolese delegation at this meeting was led by Therese Kayikwamba Wagner, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, International Cooperation and Francophonie. The Rwandan side was led by its Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Olivier Nduhungirehe. The mediation was represented by Tète António, Angolan Minister of External Relations.
The DRC and Rwanda have been in dialogue for several months under the mediation of Angola to find a definitive solution in terms of peace and security in the East of the DRC and in the Great Lakes sub-region.
Kinshasa accuses Kigali of supporting the M23 rebellion which occupies several localities in the province of North Kivu, in the east of the DRC, following a war it has been waging there for more than a year.
Kigali, in turn, accuses its neighbour of collaborating with the FDLR rebels who have taken refuge on its soil for more than a decade, in the aftermath of the Rwandan genocide.
According to some intellugence sources,the Rwanda gorvement is expected to give a list of FDLR whom it expects resides in DRC,and seen by many as a hard task.
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