Museveni: 'No further negotiations with Kony'

  1. Posted on Thursday 24 July 2008 - 10:19
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    Mugira Fredrick, AfricaNews reporter in Kampala, Uganda
    Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni says that his government will not hold further negotiations with the Lord Resistance Army leader Joseph Kony (photo). The President made the remarks yesterday shortly after meeting the First Vice President of Sudan General Salva Kiir who is in Uganda on an official visit.
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    “What remains is for him to sign the peace agreement,” Mr. Museveni stresses.

    President Museveni also hailed the prevailing good relations between Uganda and Sudan.

    He disclosed that during their talks they discussed the border security, infrastructure and other issues of bilateral cooperation.

    Speaking at the same occasion, General Salva Kiir reiterated that rebel leaders Joseph Kony has exhausted all the points that took him to the bush and is therefore he expected to sign the peace agreement.

    He noted that the LRA leader has no reason to have the peace talks transferred elsewhere. Juba in Southern Sudan has been the center of the peace talks between Uganda government and the LRA rebels to end the insurgency in Northern Uganda that has lasted for over 20 years displacing millions of people there.

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