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A week after taking office, DRC President Joseph Kabila has met President Paul Kagame of Rwanda, with which the DRC is at war. The two leaders met in Washington, in the US, on Thursday in a meeting that could foreshadow additional contacts - perhaps at UN headquarters in New York on Friday - in an effort to end the DRC war, news organisations reported. The two leaders met briefly after a prayer breakfast hosted by US President George Bush, and held talks later at an undisclosed location, the Associated Press agency (AP) reported from Washington. Rwandan presidential spokesman Nicholas Shalita had confirmed that the meeting took place, it said.
The impetus for this meeting appeared to have come from the two leaders themselves, according to the BBC on Friday. “It seems this is the beginning of a necessary dialogue to reassure each other, and for them to understand each other,” it quoted a US State Department official as saying.
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