Museveni blames Kabila for dialogue impasse

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has said DRC President Laurent-Desire Kabila was to blame for the delay in the inter-Congolese negotiations on the political future of the DRC, provided for in the Lusaka ceasefire agreement. “Kabila of course is a problem, because he does not see the need for a quick resolution of this problem. Yet the longer he waits the more complicated the situation in his country becomes,” Museveni said last week in an interview with IRIN. “I believe dialogue is the only way forward. Even if Kabila was completely overthrown, still those who would succeed him would have to have a dialogue. Whether the dialogue includes Kabila or not, there must be one,” he stated. Meanwhile, Museveni said his government would cooperate with a proposed UN panel to investigate the illegal exploitation of DRC’s resources. The creation of the panel would be “very good, because they will find out that Uganda has got nothing out of that Congo,” he told IRIN.