/ 27 June 2001

DRC OPPOSITION AGREE TO MEET

TWO Democratic Republic of Congo opposition movements have agreed to exchange views about the situation in the country, a representative for the Rwandan-backed rebel Congolese Rally for Democracy said on Wednesday. Thirty representatives of DRC’s unarmed opposition and the RCD will meet on Thursday in Goma, where the rebel movement has its headquarters in eastern DRC. About 30 representatives of the main parties which make up the unarmed opposition movement in Kinshasa plan to attend. Opponents living in exile in Europe have also been invited as well as representatives of the unarmed opposition movements in territories which the RCD controls, said rebel spokesman Jean-Pierre Lola Kisanga. – AFP