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To: john mcknight who wrote (2164)	4/11/1999 3:48:00 PM
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New Vision (Kampala) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- President Kabila To Meet Rebels In Rome For Talks April 10, 1999 Kampala - Congolese President Laurent Kabila, on a two-day visit to Kenya, said Wednesday he was ready to talk to rebels fighting him, Kenya has said. Uganda's state minister for regional cooperation Amama Mbabazi yesterday confirmed that Kabila is scheduled to meet the rebels in Rome, Italy. He said Vatican-based Italian Non-Government Organisation, St. Egidio Community, is organising the meeting. Last weekend, Kabila announced in Kinshasa that he would meet the rebels in Rome. "The Rome meeting will be purely a Congolese affair. Uganda and other countries involved in Congo are not invited," Mbabazi said. St. Egidio Community is remembered for successfully mediating between the ruling Frelimo government in Mozambique and the Renamo rebels. In 1997, the Community attempted in vain to secure the release of school girls abducted in 1996 from St. Mary's College Aboke, Apac, by Kony rebels. Kabila met Kenyan President Daniel arap Moi while in Nairobi. on Tuesday and Wednesday, "expressed his desire for an urgent end to the conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and said he was ready for talks with rebels and other stakeholders in the Republic," said a joint statement from the two presidents. Mbabazi said the Southern African Development Community (SADC) initiative is still alive. He said a meeting of a committee on security concerns of the DRC and the neighbouring countries scheduled for Lusaka has been postponed. "The invitations were delayed, but it could be held next week. The resolutions drafted by this committee may lead to a possible cease-fire and troops pull-out," he said. Mbabazi said the committee's resolutions will result in the holding of a regional meeting of ministers of foreign affairs and defence. "A summit of a regional heads of State will then called to endorse the resolutions of the committee," he said. "His Excellency President Moi offered Nairobi as the venue for the all-inclusive talks and further agreed to consult with all parties with a view to inviting the government of the DRC and all Congolese groups which are stakeholders to attend," the statement said. Since last August, the rebels control vast swathes of the eastern and northern part of the huge central African country. Kabila has in the past invited rebels to the Congolese capital Kinshasa for talks, but at the same time he has refused to accept the participation of rebels in several rounds of regionally brokered talks. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Regards John