Rwanda’s foreign minister, Dr Vincent Biruta on Wednesday represented President Paul Kagame on the second round of talks over the security situation in eastern DR Congo, an official source confirmed to APA in Kigali.
The mini-summit taking place behind closed doors in Luanda was attended by Presidents João Lourenço of Angola Felix Tshisekedi of DR Congo, Evariste Ndayishimiye of Burundi, and former Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta, who is the facilitator of the East African Community-led peace process.
The second Luanda summit on DR Congo security was convened five months after the first one designed a roadmap for the pacification of eastern Congolese provinces of North Kivu, South Kivu and Ituri.
Eastern DR Congo is home to over 120 armed groups, who are accused of abuses by the United Nations.
Angola’s President João Lourenço and the former Kenyan leader Uhuru Kenyatta are mediating between Rwanda and DR Congo.
The Congolese government was due to meet representatives of various armed groups earlier this month in the Kenyan capital Nairobi, but the meeting was postponed after Kinshasa refused to send a delegation.
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