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UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs

DRC: Rivals vow to form government by 30 June

KINSHASA, 12 June 2003 (IRIN) - Rival opposition movements and the government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo have assured a visiting UN Security Council delegation that they would form a transitional government by 30 June.

Ambassador Jean-Marc De La Sabliere of France, the head of the 15-member delegation, said on Wednesday at a news conference in Kinshasa, the capital, that the parties had promised to solve the main problem delaying the formation of the government: the appointment to top army posts.

That undertaking, he said, was given in meetings with Congolese President Joseph Kabila, members of the Inter-Congolese Dialogue Follow-up Committee, as well as representatives of the rival Rassemblement Congolais pour la Democratie-Goma and the RCD-Mouvement pour la Liberation du Congo (MLC).

A decision to form a transitional national unity government was reached in December 2002 in Pretoria, South Africa. De La Sabliere said it was important to push ahead with the inauguration of governmental institutions, especially because of the continued ethnic fighting in the eastern district of Ituri and North Kivu province.

The Security Council delegation left for Bunia, the main town in Ituri, on Thursday. De La Sabliere said a meeting of the Kivu belligerents was due to take place on Thursday in Bujumbura. The meeting is to be chaired by the UN Secretary-General’s special representative in the DRC, Amos Namanga Ngongi.

Theme(s): (IRIN) Conflict, (IRIN) Governance

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