Rwanda, DRCongo defense ministers discuss joint plan to eliminate negative forces

RUBAVU - Rwandan and DRCongo Defense ministers Monday met in the border town of Gisenyi in a bid to carry on with talks aimed at planning how to eliminate negative forces from the vast central African country. The meeting also attended by high-level security delegations from both countries, including their two army chiefs, discussed the implementation of the earlier reported joint military operational plan. “We discussed and realized we have to comply with the Nairobi communiqué’s resolutions and what our Heads of State wish to be implemented fast,” Gen. Marcel Gatsinzi, Rwanda’s defense minister said shortly after the meeting at Lake Kivu Serena Hotel. “Now, as defense ministers, we have instructed our army chiefs to also do their job,” he said, stressing that in the earlier Nairobi Communiqué, and the recent December 4 and 5 bilateral Foreign Affairs ministers’ meeting, the issue of routing out negative forces, especially ex-Far interahamwe, had been high on the agenda.