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EU special envoy visits to promote DRC peace

    NAIROBI

    The European Union’s special envoy for the Great Lakes region, Aldo Ajello, was in Kigali last week to explore new avenues and initiatives of reviving the Lusaka peace accords for DRC with the Rwandan authorities, Rwandan News Agency (RNA) reported at the weekend. Ajello told journalists in the Rwandan capital, Kigali, that he was concerned about the deadlock in the DRC peace process, despite EU support amounting to US $1 million for Joint Military Committee charged with implementing the peace agreement on the ground. Ajello said Rwanda had previously indicated it was ready to withdraw its troops from the DRC if MONUC forces were deployed and if militia troops, including the Interahamwe and the ex-FAR (ex-Rwandan armed forces) were disarmed and repatriated, as stipulated in the Lusaka accords. He said the EU was now hoping for a new element which would revive the DRC peace process.

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