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The Joint Military Commission (JMC) has drawn up a disengagement and redeployment plan for combatants in the DRC, which was discussed by the Political Committee charged with overseeing the peace process at the weekend. Acting JMC Chairman Brigadier-General Timothy Kazembe of Zambia said the JMC partners had adopted "a comprehensive plan for the disengagement of the warring forces and their redeployment to new defensive positions" at last week's meeting in Kampala, the semi-official
Ugandan 'New Vision' newspaper reported. Kazembe said foreign troops would not be withdrawn before full deployment of the UN Observer Mission in the DRC (MONUC), the report added.
The chairman of the Political Committee, Ugandan Minister for Regional Cooperation Amama Mbabazi, had asked the JMC to establish a plan for a peacekeeping mission in the DRC, even in the absence of the UN force. "If the UN is unwilling to authorise peace enforcement under Chapter 7, we, the parties, would assume responsibility for the coercive element of the
disengagement, demobilisation and resettlement of the armed groups in Congo," the 'New Vision' quoted him as saying.
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