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DATE=1/8/99
TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT
NUMBER=2-243937
TITLE=CONGO CONSPIRACY (L ONLY)
BYLINE=SCOTT STEARNS
DATELINE=NAIROBI
CONTENT=
VOICED AT:
INTRO:  CONGO'S GOVERNMENT SAYS WESTERN POWERS ARE TO BLAME FOR 
THE COUNTRY'S CONTINUING CIVIL WAR.  AS CORRESPONDENT SCOTT 
STEARNS REPORTS, PRESIDENT LAURENT KABILA SAYS HE WILL ONLY MEET 
REBELS IF THEY COME TO THE CAPITAL, KINSHASA.
TEXT:  CONGO'S AMBASSADOR TO KENYA SAYS REBEL ALLIES'  RWANDA AND
UGANDA ARE BEING HELPED BY AN INTERNATIONAL MAFIA OUT TO ENSLAVE 
AFRICANS.  
AMBASSADOR KYUNGU WA-KU-MWANZA SAYS THIS WESTERN CONSPIRACY IS 
RESPONSIBLE FOR DESTABILIZING KABILA ALLIES -- WITH RENEWED 
FIGHTING IN ANGOLA AND LABOR UNREST IN ZIMBABWE -- WHILE 
MANIPULATING INTERNATIONAL AID TO PUNISH PRESIDENT KABILA.
   /// KYUNGU ACT IN FRENCH ESTABLISH AND FADE UNDER TEXT ///
AMBASSADOR KYUNGU SAYS: AT THE SAME TIME OUR ALLIES ARE BEING 
DESTABILIZED, THE WEST IS INTENSIFYING ITS INVOLVEMENT IN RWANDA 
AND UGANDA WITH THE WORLD BANK GIVING MONEY THAT IS BEING USED TO
BUY GUNS TO KILL CONGOLESE WHO THEY WANT TO REDUCE TO SLAVERY.
AMBASSADOR KYUNGU DECLINED TO NAME THE MEMBERS OF THIS 
INTERNATIONAL MAFIA,  BUT HE IS CLEARLY NOT PLEASED WITH THE 
UNITED STATES, WHO HE CRITICIZED FOR NOT IMMEDIATELY CONDEMNING 
ALLEGED REBEL MASSACRES IN EASTERN CONGO. 
UNLIKE THE FRENCH, WHO HE PRAISED FOR CONDEMNING THE KILLINGS, 
THE U-S GOVERNMENT HAS CALLED FOR AN INVESTIGATION.
THE U-S STATE DEPARTMENT SAYS IT IS NOT TAKING SIDES IN CONGO'S 
CIVIL WAR AND IS INSTEAD TRYING TO SUPPORT REGIONAL EFFORTS AT A 
NEGOTIATED SETTLEMENT.
SOUTHERN AFRICAN LEADERS WANT PRESIDENT KABILA TO MEET REBELS 
FACE-TO-FACE.  AFTER MONTHS OF SAYING NO, HE SAYS HE IS NOW 
WILLING TO TALK, IF THE REBELS COME TO SEE HIM IN KINSHASA. 
AMBASSADOR KYUNGU SAYS CONGO'S CIVIL WAR MUST BE SOLVED IN CONGO.
  /// KYUNGU ACT IN FRENCH  ESTABLISH AND FADE UNDER TEXT /// 
WHILE REBEL POLITICAL LEADER ERNEST WAMBA DIA WAMBA HAS INVITED 
PRESIDENT KABILA TO MEET IN REBEL-HELD AREAS IN EASTERN CONGO, 
AMBASSADOR KYUNGU SAYS REBELS SHOULD KNOW THERE IS A CAPITAL IN 
THE COUNTRY AND THAT IS KINSHASA.
HE SAYS CONGOLESE ARE RALLYING BEHIND PRESIDENT KABILA IN A WAR 
THAT HAS NOT ONLY MADE THEM STRONGER, BUT HAS ALSO MADE THEM SURE
TO REMEMBER WHICH FOREIGN GOVERNMENTS TURNED AGAINST THEM IN 
SUPPORTING THE REBELLION.   (SIGNED)
LON/SS/RAE
08-Jan-99 8:40 AM EST (1340 UTC)
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Source: Voice of America
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