The Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation of Rwanda, announced that the message received by President Paul Kagame was sent by the Mediator for the Rwanda-DRC issues, with the aim of resuming talks between the two countries, and that the talks between the President and the envoy he had suspended were successful.
This message was received by President Kagame on the evening of Wednesday, December 18, 2024, when he received the Special Envoy of the President of Angola, João Laurenço, who was assigned the task of mediating the issues between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
It was a message brought by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Angola, Tete António, who was received by President Kagame, accompanied by his counterpart, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Rwanda, Amb. Olivier Nduhungirehe.
In an interview with TV 5 Monde after the event, Nduhungirehe was asked by a journalist about the outcome of the talks between President Paul Kagame and the special envoy of his Angolan counterpart, who he said had brought him a message.
He said, “The Angolan Minister of Foreign Affairs brought a message of mediation, in terms of the will to resume the talks, and the talks they held were fruitful. But of course, I can’t say much about it.”
The journalist also asked him if people believed that the talks between Rwanda and the DRC were going to continue, and he replied that Rwanda has always been willing to do so and that it is not going anywhere.
He said, “We have always wanted and prepared for the talks, and we have continued to support the talks in Luanda, and although the meeting was postponed, we will continue to work with whoever wants to do so to try to ensure that the talks continue.”
One of the reasons why the meeting that was supposed to bring together President Paul Kagame and Tshisekedi was postponed was that Congo had already announced that it would not negotiate with M23, despite having previously agreed to it.
Minister Nduhungirehe, in this interview with TV 5 Monde, reiterated that no matter what happens, Congo must negotiate with M23 in order to find a permanent solution to the problems that led to the emergence of this group.
He reiterated that there is no other reason why Rwanda continues to request these talks, except that the M23 problems also affect Rwanda's security, because the DRC uses them as an excuse to work with those who want to destabilize it, including the FDLR, and it also affects regional security, given that the Congolese government is currently increasing the number of European contractors in the long-running conflict in the east of the country.
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