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MPs to discuss bilateral relations

    NAIROBI

    Rwandan and Ugandan MPs are due to meet in Rwanda on Thursday to discuss ways of improving bilateral relations, the Rwandan News Agency (RNA) has reported.

    "The Amani Uganda parliamentarians are in the country so that we can have a common understanding between the people of the two countries and the two governments," Denis Polisi, the Amani president and a Rwandan MP, told reporters at Kigali airport on Wednesday.

    The membership of Amani, an organisation formed in 1998 to promote peace in the Great Lakes region, also includes MPs from Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Kenya, Tanzania and Zambia.

    Polisi denied reports by The New Vision Ugandan government-owned newspaper to the effect that the Ugandan MPs were in Rwanda to meet President Paul Kagame, senior army officers and government officials to discuss the strained relations between the two countries. He added that the task of the Amani MPs was to bring peace in the region "as a whole".

    Relations between Rwanda and Uganda, once close allies, soured after their troops clashed in the eastern DRC city of Kisangani. However, the British government subsequently made considerable efforts to reduce bilateral tensions and reconcile the two countries.

    The British high commission had been invited to attend the two-day Amani meeting in Kigali, RNA reported.

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