/ 10 May 1999

DRC PEACE TALKS POSTPONED

PEACE talks between leaders of the Democratic Republic of Congo and rebels which were scheduled to take place in Nairobi later this week have been postponed, Kenya’s foreign ministry said on Monday.”The proposed national debate for the Democratic Republic of Congo scheduled to take place in Nairobi in mid-May has been postponed to early June, 1999,” a foreign ministry statement said. The national debate on democratisation by some 200 prominent figures in the DRC, including rebels who have been fighting the regime of President Laurent Kabila since August last year, was scheduled to open in Nairobi on May 14.