Kenya: Ban to attend summit on DRC

  1. Posted on Thursday 6 November 2008 - 11:40
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    Emmanuel Pweto, AfricaNews reporter in Kinshasa, DRC
    The UN's Secretary General, Ban Ki-Moon, is to attend the summit on the crisis in eastern DRC in Nairobi, Kenya this coming Friday. The presidents of the DRC and Rwanda, two neighbouring countries with strained relations, will also participate in this international summit.
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    The Kenyan Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Moses Wetangula, said the summit, called by the international community is look at the urgency of the situation in the province of North Kivu, will be devoted to the fighting in eastern DRC and solutions to try to "solve this crisis.

    The diplomatic and political advisor of President Joseph Kabila has confirmed his arrival at the summit in Nairobi. The Rwandan president Paul Kagame, considered a key player in the region, also confirmed his participation at a press briefing in Kigali, where he denounced the "weakness" of the international community on this issue.


    The United Nations will be represented by its Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon, announced Wednesday in Goma, the provincial capital of North Kivu, the patron of peace missions of the United Nations, Alain Le Roy, and third day of his tour in the east.

    The presidents of the African Union (AU), Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Burundi and South Africa, will also participate in the summit, said Wetangula.

    Fighting involving the rebels of General deposed Congolese Tutsi Laurent Nkunda and the Congolese army started in late August in the province of North Kivu, which borders Rwanda.

    Le Roy said that reinforcements of the UN Mission in DRC (MONUC) had arrived in Goma - in addition to the thousand peacekeepers already present - but without specifying their number.

    He has assured that "in case of willingness of armed groups to enter Goma, instruction (was) given (the peacekeepers) to draw". Rwanda and the DRC border countries; relations have been strained since the 1994 genocide in Rwanda.

    Kinshasa accuses Kigali of supporting the rebels of Laurent Nkunda, which Rwanda denies.

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