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Government denounces "inter-Kivu dialogue"

    NAIROBI

    Speaking on government-owned RTNC TV in Kinshasa on Tuesday after a meeting of the Council of Ministers of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) regarding the recently-concluded 'inter-Kivu dialogue', Minister of Communications and government spokesman Kikaya bin Karubi announced that "the government hereby denounces this destabilising manoeuvre, which violates the Lusaka accords as well as the Republican Pact signed in Gaborone by all the sides involved
    in the Congolese conflict.

    It, therefore, appeals to the brave people of the entire Kivu region to reject the holding of this so-called dialogue and not to feel bound by the resolutions that will be adopted at this forum. It also calls on inter-Congolese dialogue facilitator, Ketumile Masire, to help end acts aimed at sabotaging the national dialogue because the entire Congolese people have agreed to holding the talks. It appeals to the international community "to thwart Rwanda's obvious plan to torpedo the peace process and sabotage in advance the talks" slated to begin 15 October in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

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