DRC’s opposition parliamentary groups have demanded participation in the ongoing talks in Kampala and the agenda be expanded beyond the assessment of agreements of 23 March 2009.
The President of the Parliamentary Group of Movement for the Liberation of Congo (MLC) and allies, Jean Lucien Busa stated in Kinshasa Saturday, January 12.
The groups believe that the talks did not take into account the whole issue of insecurity in eastern DRC as well as issues related to the country’s governance, democracy and human rights.
According to the statement of the chairman of the MLC and allies, MPs also want the opposition and civil society and diaspora participate in these discussions. Jean-Lucien Busa believes that “a negotiation between the two (Government and M23) is not one.”
He explains that: “The M23 and the government share the responsibility for what is happening in the East. This is a compromise.
Hence the importance of having a political opposition that alternative proposals which can put them face to face that, in the interests of the Congolese people, it kind of talks with the answers that are in line with the aspirations of the Congolese .”
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