/ 7 April 2000

DRC FIGHTING TAKES A BREAK

THE Joint Military Commission on the ceasefire in the Democratic Republic of Congo late on Thursday announced that warring parties had agreed to a plan of disengagement of forces and their redeployment to new defensive positions. At the end of a three-day meeting in Kampala, delegates from all parties in the JMC adopted the plan that will lead to the disarmament of the fighting forces and the withdrawal of foreign troops. The JMC, formed under the auspices of a crumbling ceasefire accord signed last year in Lusaka, is made up of representives of all sides currenctly fighting in the DRC.