for the revitalization of the framework agreement of Addis Ababa – acpcongo

2023-05-06 18:20:29

Kinshasa, 6 mai 2023 (ACP).- The Bujumbura summit, in which Congolese Head of State Félix Tshisekedi is taking part, aims, among other objectives, to revitalize the Addis Ababa framework agreement, learned the ACP from the Presidency of the Democratic Republic of Congo.

« Convened by the incoming president of this regional mechanism, the President of Burundi Evariste Ndayishimiye, the Burundi summit set itself, among other objectives, to revitalize this agreement which had raised a lot of hope for the return of peace in the DRC in that it is the first peace initiative aimed at ending the deadliest conflict since the 2nd World War and addressing the root causes of violence and repeated wars in eastern DRC “said the source.

In total, thirteen (13) Heads of State or their representatives, UN Secretary General Antonio Gutteres, as well as representatives of the African Union, the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR) and of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) have confirmed their participation in this meeting which is being held in Bujumbura.

The speech of President Tshisekedi from the top of this rostrum is eagerly awaited, informed the source, by the fact that the DRC assumed the outgoing presidency of this mechanism, but also because this country intends to dismantle in front of the 13 other members, the UN, the AU, the CIRGL and the SADC how Rwanda torpedoed this process by its proven aggression on Congolese territory.

Moreover, the source points out, there is no doubt, for the DRC, that the necessary revitalization of the framework agreement of Addis Ababa must however be preceded by an evaluation of the said peace agreement.

It is in the middle of the morning, it is reported, that the President of the Republic Félix Tshisekedi arrived Saturday in Bujumbura to participate in this 11^th Summit of Heads of State signatories of the Framework Agreement for Peace, Security and Cooperation for the DRC and the region.

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