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Peace and security in the East: The disengagement plan, a way to get out of the crisis.

Since the resumption of hostilities in the east of the country, the Monitoring Committee, under the leadership of the Head of State, Joseph Kabila and the international community has adopted a new disengagement plan from Goma. Contrary to the first plan signed on 23 March 2008, the new is subject to the penalties for refractory. Vital Kamerhe, President of the National Assembly unveiled the contents of the disengagement plan signed on Wednesday September 17 in Goma.
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Q: Tell us about the new plan?

Vital Kamerhe: Following the resumption of hostilities in North Kivu, the President of the Republic, Joseph Kabila decided to personally monitor the situation on the ground for reviving the Amani process. The Head of State gathered on September 15 the International facilitation, the MONUC and the government committed in the Amani process in the presence of the Amani program coordinator Mr. Apollinaire Malu Malu, for the first meeting of the assessment of the commitment act of the last January. During the meeting, the Head of State expressed its concern to see all parties involved in the Amani process, starting with the Facilitation and MONUC, to make every effort to bring the CNDP in the program Amani.
Thus, MONUC has designed the disengagement plan that was submitted to the government. After careful consideration, the government side has formally adopted it on Wednesday September 17.

Q: What does it content and what about its implementation?

Vital Kamerhe: This plan comprises 3 phases: 1st phase is the reaffirmation of the cease-fire by all parties, the second devoted to consolidating the cease-fire and the third was developed from the disengagement itself.
During the first phase, the groups should lay down weapons on the fighting areas.
The second phase of consolidation of the cease-fire includes many activities and requires a lot of logistical and budgetary means. This will be the time to prepare the logistics for the movement of armed groups and armed forces which, with regard to armed groups, go to regrouping centers and the FARDC soldiers in the barracks, following the plan defined by the Minister of Defense.
But during this phase, there will be separation of forces through the zones of separation and these are areas where the Monuc will deploy to prevent the resumption of hostilities. This period will also gradually allow the restoration of State authority.
During the same period of consolidation, there will be the removal of barriers.
This removal will create corridors and the opening of roads to enable the opening of humanitarian space for the return of displaced persons in their communities of origin. The last phase is the disengagement itself. This disengagement begins with the departure of armed groups and the CNDP in the regrouping centers, obviously followed by the departure of the FARDC to the cantonment centers.

Q: What is the guarantee resulted from these agreements of Goma?

Vital Kamerhe : "This time, the error committed in the Commitment Act of Goma is avoided." That is why, on Sunday evening, MONUC was mandated to develop the schedule accompanied by verification and control mechanisms so that the Security Council to take up this document to either give a resolution or revise the mandate of MONUC in order to give all powers to impose peace, or to convince each other.

In fact, the first step is to convince the contracting parties and if some parts are refractory to the process, MONUC will be obliged, in a second time, to compel by force and impose peace in North Kivu and South Kivu.

LP / DCI

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