Presidents Felix Tshisekedi of Democratic Republic of Congo and Paul Kagame of Rwanda are set to meet in Luanda on December 15. Their summit with Angola's President Joao Lourenco as mediator aims to address the conflict in the eastern Congo involving the M23 rebel group, allegedly backed by Rwanda. DW spoke to Congo's Foreign Minister Therese Kayikwamba Wagner.
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00:00The constellation of this meeting shows us that it is not a Congolese conflict, but
00:08rather a conflict between two countries.
00:11The reality of the field also shows it to us.
00:14The United Nations group of experts speaks of nearly 4,000 Rwandan troops, and so we
00:19hope that through this facilitation and through this meeting at the level of heads of state,
00:25we will be able to put an end to this conflict, and we will be able to turn the page.
00:30We definitely do not want to have a withdrawal or departure from MONUSCO, which exacerbates
00:40the risks or vulnerabilities already established.
00:43I don't want to speculate too much on the outcome, and I don't want to speculate too much on
00:49the form that the new mandate of MONUSCO will have, but it is also the responsibility of
00:54the government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo to ensure that this departure
00:58is responsible, to ensure that this departure is sustainable.
01:02We do not want a departure from MONUSCO to then have other problems.