Rwanda’s Foreign affairs Minister Louise Mishikiwabo arrived Tuesday 19 June morning in Kinshasa the capital of DRCongo to discuss the current security situation in troubled KIVU province of Eastern DRC.
“I am officially in the DRC for a meeting of security and diplomatic institutions will on the support of Rwanda in resolving the crisis in the East,” she told Congolese Media after meeting with President Joseph Kabila.
Mushikiwabo and her DRC counterpart Raymond Tshibanda (pictured below) met today in Kinshasa, on the sidelines of security situation in eastern DRC.Local Congolese Media reported early today.
The two ministers discussed in front of their experts on defense and security.
The Congolese Head of State, Joseph Kabila, received Mushikiwabo today (Tuesday) morning.
Minister Mishikiwabo said, “the opinion must be educated and understood that Rwanda has long worked for the pacification of the Great Lakes Region,” she said while responding to questions on accusations against Rwanda for alleged support to Rebels.
She expressed Rwanda’s willingness to assist the DRC in its stabilization work.
Earlier the spokesperson for the Congolese government, Lambert Mende Omalanga, had accused Rwanda of “used in the preparation of a conspiracy that is evolving into a pattern of breaches of the peace between two countries in the Great Lakes region.”
Mushikiwabo had also responded describing the allegations by DRC’s Mende, as very unfortunate. “It is regrettable that DRC has chosen to make allegations in the media shortly before we were to sign the joint verification taskforce report, whose purpose is to sift through allegations and separate fact from fiction.”
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