The Political Committee on Friday also urged all Congolese parties to the conflict to agree on the appointment of a neutral facilitator for the national debate on the DRC’s political future, news agencies reported. Under the Lusaka agreement, a neutral facilitator was to have been selected by mid-September to lead up to six weeks of all-inclusive inter-Congolese talks.
The Goma faction of the rebel Rassemblement congolais pour la democratie (RCD) last month rejected three previously-proposed mediators. Radio Rwanda quoted Rwandan Foreign Minister Augustin Iyamuremye as saying upon his return to Kigali on Saturday that the Political Committee had appointed a delegate to assist the OAU in finding a mediator for the talks.
Meanwhile, Ugandan Minister of State for Defence Stephen Kavuma on Sunday said Ugandan troops would remain in the DRC until the government was sure that a “permanent arrangement is in place to ensure that no problem emanates from there again”, Radio Uganda reported.
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