Hon.
Bernard K. Membe, Minister for Foreign Affairs and International
Cooperation giving country's position during the joint SADC/ICGLR
Ministerial Meeting held in Luanda, Angola July 2, 2014. Left to the
Minister is the Tanzanian Army Chief of Staff, Lt. Gen. Samuel Ndomba.
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UNITED REPUBLIC OF TANZANIA
Ministry
of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation
The second joint ministerial meeting of the Southern Africa Development
Cooperation (SADC) and the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region
(ICGLR) countries was concluded in Luanda July 2, 2014 with concrete steps to
finding sustainable peace in the region.
The well attended meeting by all country members
represented by foreign and defence ministers deliberated heavily on a single
agenda of voluntarily disarmament of the Democratic Forces for the Liberation
of Rwanda (FDLR).
Hon. Bernard Membe, Minister for Foreign Affairs and
International Cooperation, led the Tanzania delegation whereby the Tanzania
Defence Minister was represented by the Tanzanian Army Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Samuel
Ndomba.
FDLR a politico-military organization whose combatants are exclusively freedom fighters originally from Rwanda settled in DRC, wrote an appeal letter to SADC secretariat expressing their readiness to surrender and hand over their weaponry to African relevant authorities. The letter also requested assistance from the organ to oversee the process of Disarm, Demobilize, Repatriate, Resettle and Re-integrate (DDRRR) in accordance to the directives of other neighbouring countries including Tanzania.
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