ZIMBABWE/DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO: A SOUTHERN AFRICAN SUMMIT ON THE CONFLICT IN THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO ENDS WITHOUT AGREEMENT

Record ID: 472931

  • Title: ZIMBABWE/DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO: A SOUTHERN AFRICAN SUMMIT ON THE CONFLICT IN THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO ENDS WITHOUT AGREEMENT
  • Date: 8th September 1998
  • Summary: VICTORIA FALLS, ZIMBABWE (SEPTEMBER 7, 1998) (RTV - ACCESS ALL) 1. LV/SV REBEL DELEGATION ARRIVING AT AIRPORT/ LEAVING PLANE INCLUDING REBEL ENVOY BIZIMA KARAHA (4 SHOTS) 0.24 2. SLV POLICEMEN STANDING GUARD OUTSIDE ELEPHANT HILLS HOTEL 0.27 3. SV REBEL DELEGATION WALKING INSIDE HOTEL CORRIDOR 0.32 4. SV SIGN TO CONFERENCE CENTRE 0.38 5. SV ZAMBIAN PRESIDENT FREDERICK CHILUBA WALKING WITH HIS DELEGATION DOWN HOTEL CORRIDOR 0.43 VICTORIA FALLS, ZIMBABWE (SEP 8, 1998) (RTV - ACCESS ALL) 6. SV DEM REP. CONGO PRESIDENT LAURENT KABILA ARRIVING AT ELEPHANT HILLS HOTEL 0.55 7. SV ORGANISATION OF AFRICAN UNITY (OAU) SECRETARY GENERAL SALIM AHMED SALIM ARRIVING, UGANDAN PRESIDENT YOWERI MUSEVENI ARRIVING (2 SHOTS) 1.03 8. SV/MCU WIDE SHOT INTERIOR NEWS CONFERENCE/ MUSEVENI AND KABILA SEATED (3 SHOTS) 1.12 9. MCU SALIM AHMED SALIM SAYING: "WE BELIEVE ...THERE MUST BE AN END TO WAR IN THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO. WE THEREFORE CALL FOR AN IMMEDIATE END TO HOSTILITIES." (ENGLISH) 1.40 10. SV WIDE SHOT OF KABILA, SALIM AND CHILUBA AT TABLE 1.44 11. MCU CHILUBA SAYING: "IT WOULD NOT BE FAIR FOR US TO CHARGE ONLY AFTER HAVING BEEN IN OFFICE FOR ONE YEAR THAT HE HAS FAILED, IT WILL TAKE MUCH LONGER FOR HIM TO REORGANISE THE FORCES, TO REHABILATE INFRASTRUCTURE, REBUILD THE COUNTRY AND THAT REQUIRES PEACE." (ENGLISH) 2.00 12. MCU BIZIMA KARAHA SAYING "UNFORTUNATELY THE ONLY CONGOLESE WHO IS AT THE TABLE IS KABILA WHO IS KILLING PEOPLE" (ENGLISH) 2.22 13. SV REBEL DELEGATION WALKING AWAY 2.27 GOMA, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO (8 SEPTEMBER 1998) (REUTERS TV - ACCESS ALL) 14. SV.MCU LUNDA BULULU, A SENIOR MEMBER OF THE REBEL ALLIANCE TALKING TO JOURNALISTS, TELLING OF A BOMBING RAID ON KALEMIE (FRENCH) (2 SHOTS) 2.46 15. CU JOURNALISTS WRITING NOTES 2.51 16. MCU BULULU SAYING THAT THE ONLY CONDITION OF A CEASEFIRE IS THAT IT IS MADE BETWEEN KABILA AND THE REBELS (FRENCH) 3.07 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 23rd September 1998 13:00
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  • Location: VICTORIA FALLS, ZIMBABWE/GOMA, DEP REP CONGO
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  • Country: Congo, Democratic Republic of
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  • Story Text: A Southern African summit on the conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo has ended without agreement on a ceasefire.President Laurent Kabila's government has asked Zimbabwe to arrest the rebel leaders who attended the peace talks.

    Seven presidents including three backing Kabila's 15-month-old administration and two opposing it, gathered for a second round of talks in the Zimbabwean resort of Victoria Falls on Tuesday (September 8) promising an immediate end to the fighting.

    Four hours later, however, the rebel delegation led by Arthur Z'Ahidi Ngoma, deputy president of the Congolese Democratic Coalition, left the summit venue without having met face-to-face with Kabila or his backers.

    Organisation of African Unity Secretary General Salim Ahmed Salim read a statement after the summit calling for an early end to the fighting in the Congo and saying Kabila had promised to "broaden the political space" in his country.

    Offering the only light, Salim said the defence ministers of Zambia, the Congo and its allies, Zimbabwe, Angola and Namibia, and those from rebel allies Rwanda and Uganda would meet in Addis Ababa on Thursday to explore ceasefire options.

    Zambian President Frederick Chiluba, who chaired the summit and negotiated separately with the rebel delegation, said the talks had been difficult and the atmosphere tense.

    He said all the summit participants agreed on the need for a ceasefire and recognised Kabila as the Congo's legitimate ruler.

    Kabila accuses Uganda and Rwanda of invading his country and refuses to recognise the rebels as an internal movement.

    The rebels say Kabila has failed to implement democratic reforms, running instead a corrupt and nepotistic regime.

    In a separate interview in the lakeside town of Goma, a senior member of the rebel alliance, Lunda Bululu, reiterated the rebels' claim that there would be no ceasefire without direct talks between Kabila and the rebel movement.

    Hundreds of soldiers from the Congo, Zimbabwe, Angola, Rwanda and Uganda and many hundreds of civilians have been killed in fighting east and west of the capital, Kinshasa, and in the streets of the city itself.


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