{The Special Envoy of the Secretary-General of the United Nations for the Great Lakes Region, Said Djinnit, Wednesday in Luanda stressed the progress towards the achievement of peace in the continent’s sub-region, in which Angola is also member.}
The Algerian diplomat, also UN deputy Secretary-General, said so to the press at the end of an audience the Angolan Head of State, José Eduardo dos Santos, granted to him.
The meeting focused on the development of the situation in some African countries, with stress to the Great Lakes region, which still experience armed conflict.
He said that the United Nations continues to boost its support to African leaders of this region in order to consolidate peace where the armed conflict still takes place”, such as in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Central African Republic (CAR).
The UN official expressed concern that the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR), so far, have not disarmed or demobilised its negative forces still engaged in destabilising actions in eastern DRC.
According to him, in their latest meeting, the leaders of ICGLR gave the rebels a deadline for the integration of its members.
To this purpose, he said, the members of the group have been appealed to embrace the cause of peace, before concluding that these efforts have failed.
Angola takes up, since January this year, the chair of the international conference on the great lakes region.
ICGLR gathers Angola, Burundi, Republic of Congo, Central African Republic (CAR), Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Kenya, Rwanda, Sudan, South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia.
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