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STORY: DR CONGO/ AGREEMENT
TRT: 2.37
SOURCE: MONUC
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 23 MARCH 2009, GOMA NORTH KIVU PROVINCE
23 MARCH 2009, GOMA NORTH KIVU PROVINCE
1. Wide shot, Nigerian Air Force plane
2. Med shot, MONUC officials
3. Med shot, Obasanjo disembarks from plane and greetings
4. Med shot, UN plane
5. Med shot, Mkapa
6. Wide shot, Ihusi hotel
7. Close up, Ihusi hotel
8. Wide shot, signing
9. Close up, CNDP official signing
10. Med shot, Mai Mai men
11. Med shot, signing
12. Wide shot, clapping
13. Med shot, handshakes
14. Med shot, clapping
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Olesugun Obasanjo, DRC Peace Mediator:
“Today you’re putting behind you, the culture of warlordism, the culture of violence. And you’re embracing the culture of peace. I pray that this peace may hold, I pray that this agreement that you have signed today will not just be another sense of agreement. I pray that this agreement will energize you and entice your friends and development partners and those who want to see the Democratic Republic of the Congo to be a source of truth we energize them to continue to support you.”
16. Wide shot, clapping
17. Wide shot, clapping
18. Med shot, people
19. Med shot, Obasanjo leaving
One of the main rebel groups in the troubled Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) will transform itself into a political party under the terms of a peace deal signed today (23 March) with the government.
The agreement between the Congolese government and the new National Congress for the Defence of the People (CNDP), a Tutsi rebel group formerly led by General Laurent Nkunda, also calls for the release of former rebels held by government forces.
Alan Doss, head of the UN mission in the DRC, as well as Nigeria's former president Olusegun Obasanjo and international journalists, were present at the ceremony which took place in the eastern city of Goma.
Obasanjo said that the culture of violence and “warlordism” is now being put behind.
SOUNDBITE (English) Olesugun Obasanjo, DRC Peace Mediator:
“Today you’re putting behind you, the culture of warlordism, the culture of violence. And you’re embracing the culture of peace. I pray that this peace may hold, I pray that this agreement that you have signed today will not just be another sense of agreement. I pray that this agreement will energize you and entice your friends and development partners and those who want to see the Democratic Republic of the Congo to be a source of truth we energize them to continue to support you.”
Nkunda, a renegade army general, was arrested on 22 January in neighbouring Rwanda.
The situation in northeastern Congo remains tense as conflict continues among other rebel groups and the government.
The United Nations refugee agency said last week that attacks by a Hutu rebel group are continuing to uproot thousands in the area, reportedly displacing nearly 30,000 people just over the past two weeks.
Altogether, an estimated 1 million people are displaced in North Kivu province by a series of conflicts involving Government forces and various rebel groups, according to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).
