Ugandan President Talks with Two Congolese Rebel Faction Leaders

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Ugandan President Talks with Two Congolese Rebel Faction Leaders

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Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has held talks with two Congolese rebel faction leaders in an effort to stop the tribal clashes in Ituri Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), reported local daily the New Vision on Monday.

Ugandan Foreign Minister James Wapakhabulo said on Sunday that Museveni' s meeting on Friday with leader of the Congolese Rally for Democracy-Liberation Movement (RCD-ML) Mbusa Nyamwisi and leader of the Union of Patriotic Congolese (UPC) Thomas Lubanga was intended to pave the way for the Ituri Pacification Commissionto start work.

A communique signed on Saturday by Wapakhabulo, Nyamwisi and Lubanga was quoted as saying that the two rebel leaders agreed to immediately cease hostilities on all fronts and Mbusa's group further agreed to cease all military and political activities in Ituri which may affect the pacification process.

The RCD-ML undertook to withdraw all its forces from areas around Bunia to areas beyond Komanda, some 80 km south-west of Bunia.

The peace commission is part of an implementation of the framework within which Uganda and the DRC signed an accord in Angola in September.

The aim of the commission was to avoid a power vacuum in the region after the withdrawal of Ugandan troops. Both countries fearthat such vacuum could lead to further clashes between the Hema and Lendu.

"In any other place where the two forces of the RCD-ML and UPC are in close proximity, they should pull back out of firing range to avoid accidental clashes till a permanent solution is reached,"the communique added.

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