- Title: KENYA: UGANDAN PEACE ACCORD SIGNED IN NAIROBI
- Date: 18th December 1985
- Summary: 1. GV INTERIOR Yoweri Museveni (on left), General Tito Okello (in middle), President Daniel Arap Moi at signing ceremony 0.06 2. CU Museveni at signing ceremony 0.11 3. SV PULL LV Museveni and Okello exchange documents and re-sign each other's books 0.45 4. SV Moi exchanges document and signs 0.51 5. SV Three dignitaries rise, shake hands 1.30 6. CU Museveni speakin
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- Location: NAIROBI, KENYA
- Country: Kenya
- Topics: General
- Reuters ID: LVA5Z2D2VK0NONT9SDSCYRH9XLPC
- Story Text: NAIROBI, KENYA
The Ugandan Military Council and the Rebel National Resistance Army (NRA) signed a peace accord in Nairobi's Kenyatta Centre on December 17, bringing to a successful conclusion more than three months of difficult negotiations between the two factions. Uganda's military ruler, General Tito Okello, authorised the agreement on behalf on his governments, while NRA leader Yoweri Museveni signed for the rebels. The East African country has been wracked by years of bloodshed since attaining independence some twenty years ago. Observers have given much credit to Kenyan President Daniel Arap Moi, whose mediation efforts brought Museveni and Okello to the bargaining table. The agreement was greeted with considerable relief in Kampala, Uganda's capital, but neither local officials nor Western observers expected the peace accord to produce a sudden end to two decades of internecine feuding and violence. Under the terms of the agreement, Uganda will invite the U.K., Canada, Kenya and Tanzania to help create and train a new national army to replace the various existing factions.
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