MAYI-MAYI CALL FOR PARTICIPATION IN "INTER CONGOLESE DIALOGUE"

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CONGO-DEM.REPUBLIC, 26 SEP 2001 (16:26)
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MAYI-MAYI CALL FOR PARTICIPATION IN "INTER CONGOLESE DIALOGUE"

"If we do not participate in the forum of Addis Ababa and our demands 
are not taken into consideration" peace in the Democratic Republic of 
Congo (DRC) will be "illusory".
This was one of the passages of a request to participate in the Inter 
Congolese Dialogue, due to start in the Ethiopian capital October 15, 
forwarded yesterday by the Mayi-Mayi (spontaneous Congolese 
nationalist partisans).
The addressee of the letter, signed by Joseph Padiri Bulenda David, 
Brigadier General and Head of the Mayi-Mayi, is Ketumile Masire, 
mediator of the OAU-AU(Organisation of African Unity-African Union) 
for peace in Congo.
Padiri underlined that the Mayi-Mayi of the FAP (People's Armed 
Forces), who control vast areas of the Congolese hinterland and Kivu 
(East DRC, along the border with Rwanda, Uganda and Burundi), 
dominate 70% of the territory.
To be correctly represented in the "Dialogue", particularly with the 
objective of founding a law of rights in ex Zaire, the partisan 
groups should be recognised a participation quota of 20% of the total 
number of participants and a mission of 62 people.
The participation of a Mayi-Mayi delegation in the Ethiopian meeting 
was also urged, according to Padiri, by most of the representatives 
that one month ago attended the preparatory meeting for "Dialogue", 
held one month ago in Gaborone (Botswana) in accordance with the 
peace accords of Lusaka (Zambia).
The Congolese war broke out on 2 August 1998.
In the summer of 1999 the Lusaka accords were signed and in December 
of the same year the deployment of the MONUC (UN mission) began in 
the DRC.




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