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VIEWS OF OTHER PARTICIPANTS Roleplay of DRC Negotiations 12-5-02 The DRC seeks a peaceful solution to the conflict. The government would like to retain power in some form. The government believes that the joint business ventures it has undertaken in cooperation with Zimbabwe are legitimate businesses. Uganda has agreed to pull its troops out of the DRC and has already begun to do so. The MLC’s stated purpose is to release the country from tribalism, move toward democracy and build normalized institutions. Rwanda has agreed to pull out its troops from the DRC and has already begun the process. Rwanda is still concerned with disarming the Hutus who are using the DRC as a base. The RCD’s stated goals are to stop people from wasting the resources of the DRC and to bring peace and stability to the country. ISSUES UN - Security The United Nations envoy has been helping to broker the peace talks, but the Security Council needs to look hard for the means to send additional peacekeepers to eastern Congo. Both the Kabila government and Rwanda are requesting help. At the very least, the UN could help to finance a South African mission. The UN has 5,500 troops in the DRC, but its mandate is to observe, not keep the peace. Nor does the mission have the power to deal with the internally warring factions. Even if the UN Security Council were to increase the troops' mandate - a move few in the DRC think is likely –it is estimated that the Congo would require 150,000 peacekeepers
Roleplay of DRC Negotiations 12-5-02 to give it a presence similar to one that brought peace to Sierra Leone over the past two years. Few in the DRC believe the international community is willing to commit those types of resources to an African nation, even one as resource-rich as the Congo. The MONUC has established a disarmament, demobilization, repatriation, resettlement and reintegration presence in Goma, Bukavu and Butembo. Plans are under way for a similar presence in Kamina, Lubumbashi and possibly Shabunda to implement the process in an ad hoc way in those areas. Despite existing security constraints and the difficulties in accessing the armed groups, MONUC will consider the possibility of opening additional offices and sites for reception centres in the east of the country. With regard to the numerous attacks perpetrated by the Mai-Mai in the east of the country, MONUC has pointed out that these armed groups did not have a unique structure and has appealed to the government and RCD-Goma to locally resolve the problems created by the Mai Mai tribal warriors. MONUC is mandated only to disarm, demobilize, and repatriate the foreign groups listed in the Lusaka Agreement. However, circumstances might arise when Congolese groups or individuals might present themselves at a MONUC reception center to surrender their weapons in the hope of becoming eligible for some sort of national Congolese demobilization and reinsertion program. MONUC will attempt to convince the Kabila government (through the UN) to assist with the disarmament, demobilization and reinsertion of Congolese armed groups into society. The international community hopes Kabila will re-establish the state’s authority in the Equator and eastern province and recruit MLC troops to start building an army.
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