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Preparatory peace dialogue slated for Thursday

    NAIROBI

    A church-led initiative for a national dialogue in the DRC is due to begin on Thursday, an official from the DRC embassy in Nairobi told IRIN on Monday. "The meeting has been organised by different denominations in preparation for the inter-Congolese dialogue," he said. He said the churches sent out invitations to "everybody". "I know some will not come because they have a hidden agenda," he claimed. News organisations quoted
    opposition members as saying they would boycott the meeting, stressing that they supported the idea of the inter-Congolese dialogue as stipulated in the Lusaka peace accords. According to the DRC official, the initiative was a preparatory meeting and "should be encouraged because the Congolese people should learn to solve their own problems in their own land".

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