Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo established a goal on Friday, April 25, or reaching a eraser of peace agreement for May 2 and promised to respect sovereignty, but mutual suspicion lay down to a firm in Washington. Two days after Qatar measured a surprise truce, the United States brought together the foreign ministers of the two countries and expressed their interest in the investment in the east turbulent but rich in minerals of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The M23 rebels, which the UN experts and the United States say have received the military support from Rwanda, have quickly advanced in the Eastern RDC since January, seized key cities in the fighting that has killed thousands.
A joint statement signed in the presence of Secretary of State Marco Rubio committed the two countries to present an “initial air air agreement” for May 2. The mutual of the two countries “acknowledged the sober and territories by peaceful means based on diplomacy and negotiation instead of strength or hostile rhetoric,” the statement said. With the name of the M23 rebels explicitly, he said that each country recognizes Conerns of the other and “would refrain from providing state military support to non -state armed groups.”
The Minister of Congoleña Foreign Affairs, Therese Kayikwamba Wagner, said that the statement should be considered a commitment for a Rwanda withdrawal of her country, as established in a resolution of the UN Security Council in February. “The good news is that there is hope for peace. Real news: peace must win and require seriousness, transparency and sincerity,” he said. “For our compatriots and women in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, especially in the East: we know that he is observing this moment with concern, with hope and, yes, with doubt, and you are right in doing so.”
‘Real change in conversation’
Kayikwamba and Rwanda Foreign Minister Olivier Nduhungyrehe, signed the agreement separately with Rubio’s observation and did not give their hands for the cameras. Nduhungyrehe said that President Donald Trump had made a “real change in conversation” in Dr. Congo, even by establishing a link to efforts to expand the investment of the US private sector. “Today we are talking about real problems, the fundamental causes that must be addressed to achieve lasting peace in our region,” he said, asking for a region “free of violent ethnic extremism.”
Ruanda has denied military support for M23, which are mostly tutsis. But he says that his security has threatened with the armed slimps that have remained in the Eastern RDC for decades, in particular the democratic forces for the liberation of Rwanda, created by former Hutu leaders linked to the genocide of the tutorial in 1994 in Rwanda.
A new American envoy for the businessman of Africa Massad Boulos, who is the father -in -law of Trump’s daughter, Tiffany, visited both countries this month and asked Rwanda to stop support for the M23 and take out the troops.
The joint declaration said that the two parties should expect “significant investments” provided by the United States government and the private sector of the United States, even in hydroelectric and minerals, an area where China has been active in the search for resources. “Durable peace in the large lake region will open for a greater investment in the United States and broader western ones, which will cause economic opportunities and prosperity,” Rubio said in the firm. “It is, as they call it, a mutual benefit for all involved,” he said.
United States pressure
The administration of former President Joe Biden also sought to resolve the conflict, offering the monitoring of the United States of a high fire and the expansion of a railway project of the United States, but finally said that Rwanda was not interested.
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Martin Ziakwau Lembisa, an expert in international relations of the Catholic University of Congo, said Rwanda wanted to relieve foreign pressure and that the M23 had reached key demands after the Kinshasa government, the relocated course and said that Wind Ital.
“I think that American pressure helps the parties to the diplomatic option, because it was until M23, they would have further advanced in their offensive,” he said. “But to what extent Americans will really get involved is the whole question.”
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