D.R. CONGO: U.N. SECRETARY-GENERAL KOFI ANNAN HOLDS TALKS WITH CONGO PRESIDENT JOSEPH KABILA IN KINSHASA
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D.R. CONGO: U.N. SECRETARY-GENERAL KOFI ANNAN HOLDS TALKS WITH CONGO PRESIDENT JOSEPH KABILA IN KINSHASA
- Title: D.R. CONGO: U.N. SECRETARY-GENERAL KOFI ANNAN HOLDS TALKS WITH CONGO PRESIDENT JOSEPH KABILA IN KINSHASA
- Date: 2nd September 2001
- Summary: KINSHASA, DRC (SEPTEMBER 2, 2001) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. SV'S/CU: U.N. SECRETARY GENERAL KOFI ANNAN AND PRESIDENT JOSEPH KABILA STANDING TOGETHER (3 SHOTS) 0.17 2. CU: LARGE POSTER OF FORMER PRESIDENT LAURENT KABILA /GUARD (2 SHOTS) 0.23 3. SV: ANNAN AND KABILA AT NEWS CONFERENCE 0.27 4. SCU: (SOUNDBITE) (French) ANNAN SPEAKING ABOUT DISARMAMENT OF PEOPLE STILL OPERATING IN EASTERN DRC, THAT NEXT PART OF U.N. OPERATION WILL BE DISARMAMENT, THAT THE VARIOUS ARMED GROUPS ARE DESTABILISING THE AREA 0.44 5. SCU: CUTAWAY OF JOSEPH KABILA 0.46 6. SCU: (SOUNDBITE) (ENGLISH) ANNAN REFERRING TO FACT THAT ALL PARTIES WILL MEET OCTOBER 15 TO TRY TO RESOLVE THE SITUATION IN DRC: "We cannot succeed on the military front, it is important that the Congolese people create a dialogue." 0.59 7. SV: PEOPLE LINING ROAD TO GREET ANNAN AND HIS WIFE, NANE, AS THEY ARRIVE AT HOSPITAL (3 SHOTS) 1.10 8. WIDE OF HOSPITAL 1.14 9. VARIOUS: ANNAN AND WIFE VISITING CHILDREN AT HOSPITAL WHERE HE ADMINISTERS POLIO VACCINE TO BABY (9 SHOTS) 1.44 (FILE) KISANGANI, DRC (JUNE 10, 2000) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 9. GV: RWANDAN SOLDIERS FIRING AT UGANDAN FORCES WITHDRAWING BY THE TSCHOPO RIVE TWO HOURS BEFORE CEASEFIRE AROUND KISANGANI 1.56 KISANGANI, DRC (JUNE 11-12, 2000) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 10. LV: RWANDAN SOLDIERS CROSSING TSHOPO RIVER 2.04 11. MV: DISPLACED PEOPLE WALKING 2.12 12. SV: RWANDAN PATROL DRIVING BACK TO TOWN 2.18 13. SLV'S/MV: DESTROYED HOMES (3 SHOTS) 2.28 14. PULL BACK: UN CAR DRIVING PAST DEAD UGANDAN SOLDIER 2.38 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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- Location: KINSHASA, DEM REP CONGO
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- Country: Congo, Democratic Republic of
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- Story Text: U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan met Congo's President
Joseph Kabila on Sunday saying he was encouraged by
recent progress towards ending a three-year war, although much
more remained to be done.
In a brief statement in Kinshasa with Kabila at his
side, Annan thanked Congo's young president for his support
for the United Nations military observer mission in the Congo,
and applauded recent efforts to implement a 1999 peace accord.
A peace deal signed two years ago initially did little to
stop the fighting in a war that has sucked in six foreign
armies and is thought have claimed more than a million lives,
but more progress has been made since Kabila took over from
his murdered father as Democratic Republic of Congo president
in January.
The front lines have been quiet this year, allowing the
U.N. to deploy hundreds of unarmed military observers, who say
the warring parties have largely completed a planned
disengagement from forward positions.
Annan said he was encouraged by an agreement among
government, rebels, opposition groups and leaders of Congo
society to start a national dialogue in Ethiopia in October
aimed at charting a political future for Africa's third
largest country.
He also welcomed the withdrawal this year of most of the
Ugandan and Namibian troops which had been involved in the war
-- and said he would continue to push for the other foreign
armies to leave.
"But that should not stop the Congolese deciding between
themselves to work together for peace," Annan said after
meeting Kabila. "If you begin to work together, that will
encourage the foreign troops to leave."
Annan, who arrived in the Congo on Saturday to try and
bolster the peace process, is due to meet opposition
politicians and diplomats later on Sunday.
The secretary-general is due to fly to the rebel-held town
of Kisangani on Monday and on to the Rwandan capital Kigali
for talks with President Paul Kagame, who has more than 10,000
soldiers in Congo backing the rebels.
Annan said another important challenge to peace in the
region remained the question of disarming the militia groups
operating in eastern Congo, including armed bands which
threaten the security of Rwanda, Burundi and Uganda.
Later, Annan toured Kinshasa's main hospital where he and
his wife Nane administered drops of polio vaccine to several
babies, and he spoke of the need for a global effort to fight
the HIV/AIDS epidemic.
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