A meeting is scheduled Monday in Nairobi, Kenya, between a delegation from the Congolese government and the CNDP of Laurent Nkunda. According to the spokesman of this movement, the CNDP responds to an invitation from the envoy of the United Nations and the African Union, O. OBASSANJO and expects this appointment the opening of direct negotiations they always call with the power of Kinshasa.
Thus, for Bertrand Bisimwa, the displacement of Nairobi is not in place, as was underlined Saturday the spokesman for the government in the process Amani. "You know our position on that. The Amani for us is part of history. The program Amani is a government program, and the government has to do with who he wants, but the CNDP will no longer be part of the Amani program "he decided.
"You know that long ago the CNDP think that the current crisis must be resolved through negotiations. We hope that this is the opening of direct negotiations that we requested. We hope, "stressed the spokesman for the CNDP.
On the government side, the spokesman support the Congolese government will meet all armed groups active in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo and not just the rebellion of Laurent Nkunda.
"We will receive all armed groups separately and we start with the group of Laurent Nkunda Monday in Nairobi," said Africanews, the Minister of Communication Lambert Mende.
"We n'abandonnons not the Amani program," he added, referring to a program launched in January and that includes all Congolese armed movements of South and North Kivu.
The program Amani is a point of contention between the government, which wished to continue, and the rebellion of General Mutin which has denounced and does negotiate with Kinshasa.
This meeting will take place "under the auspices of the mediator" of the United Nations, Olusegun Obasanjo, and aims to "formalize the cease-fire and discuss the roadmap for peace in eastern DRC," according Official communicate.
The fighting resumed in late August in the province of North Kivu between the CNDP and the regular army. The rebellion has adopted a unilateral ceasefire in late October, which helped maintain a fragile calm.