Progress being made, Uganda says

Ugandan Foreign Minister Amama Mbabazi on Tuesday said progress was being made to resolve the DRC conflict. Addressing a news conference at UN headquarters, ahead of a General Assembly debate on the issue, he listed areas where agreement had been reached. These included a ceasefire, deployment of international peacekeepers, withdrawal of all foreign troops from DRC and action on the security concerns of neighbouring states. However, he warned that “as long as there is genocide, as long as one group of people feels entitled to exterminate another group, obviously, we’ll have no choice but to act in self-defence, even survival”. Answering a question, he said that “at the rate the rebels were moving, it was possible they could reach Kinshasa”.