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ICGLR: DRC Summit

ICGLR: DRC Summit The grouping is keen to work towards a political solution. The fourth Extraordinary Summit of Heads of State and Government of the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR) reaffirmed the region's commitment to the pursuit of sustainable peace based on home‐grown solutions to the recurrent crises in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The Summit, chaired by President Yoweri Museveni (Uganda) was attended by Presidents Paul Kagame (Rwanda), Joseph Kabila (DRC), Pierre Nkurunziza (Burundi) and Salva Kiir (South Sudan). Leaders discussed implementation of the regionally driven mechanisms, which in three months since the first Summit, have seen notable advances, including the cessation of hostilities in Eastern DRC. The expanded Joint Verification Mechanism and the Military Assessment team, launched in Goma in September, are operational with all members from the 11 ICGLR member states now on the ground fulfilling their commitment to bringing peace to Eastern DRC. President Museveni was tasked with “continuing dialogue with belligerents as well as ensuring support from all member states for the implementation of a neutral force.” The regional grouping has clearly stated it prefers a political solution to a military option even as it has taken preliminary steps towards deploying a proposed African neutral force to help return peace to eastern DRC. (The New Times, Kigali 9/10) http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Africa Research Bulletin: Political, Social and Cultural Series Wiley

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Publisher
Wiley
Copyright
© Blackwell Publishing Ltd. 2012
ISSN
0001-9844
eISSN
1467-825X
DOI
10.1111/j.1467-825X.2012.4722.x
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Abstract

The grouping is keen to work towards a political solution. The fourth Extraordinary Summit of Heads of State and Government of the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR) reaffirmed the region's commitment to the pursuit of sustainable peace based on home‐grown solutions to the recurrent crises in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The Summit, chaired by President Yoweri Museveni (Uganda) was attended by Presidents Paul Kagame (Rwanda), Joseph Kabila (DRC), Pierre Nkurunziza (Burundi) and Salva Kiir (South Sudan). Leaders discussed implementation of the regionally driven mechanisms, which in three months since the first Summit, have seen notable advances, including the cessation of hostilities in Eastern DRC. The expanded Joint Verification Mechanism and the Military Assessment team, launched in Goma in September, are operational with all members from the 11 ICGLR member states now on the ground fulfilling their commitment to bringing peace to Eastern DRC. President Museveni was tasked with “continuing dialogue with belligerents as well as ensuring support from all member states for the implementation of a neutral force.” The regional grouping has clearly stated it prefers a political solution to a military option even as it has taken preliminary steps towards deploying a proposed African neutral force to help return peace to eastern DRC. (The New Times, Kigali 9/10)

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Africa Research Bulletin: Political, Social and Cultural SeriesWiley

Published: Jan 1, 2012

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