Addis Ababa Agreement (2013)
The Addis Ababa Agreement of 2013 is an agreement between eleven Central and South African countries on the situation in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo .
At a meeting at the African Union in Addis Ababa on February 24, 2013, the heads of state or representatives of these eleven countries in the region, including the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda and Uganda, and UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon , the President of the Commission, signed the commission the African Union Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma and the SADC- President Armando Emílio Guebuza a framework agreement related to the situation in the Eastern Congo, by its own name for "peace, security and cooperation" (" accord-cadre pour la paix, la sécurité et la coopération ") , with which the respective states declared that they would respect their borders and not support armed groups. The agreement is seen as a possible further initiation of the deployment of a reaction force to combat the March 23rd movement (M23) militarily . The purely intergovernmental agreement came about without involving the M23 or other armed or civil society groups. The journalist Dominic Johnson assessed this step in such a way that the negotiations in Kampala would have lost their value.
As a result of the agreement, fighting broke out within the M23 between the Sultani Makengas faction and the faction over the former chief of staff of the National Congress for the Defense of the People , Bosco Ntaganda , and the political president of the M23, Bishop Jean-Marie Runiga Lugerero .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Accord-cadre pour la paix, la security et la coopération pour la République démocratique du Congo et la région. (PDF; 493 kB) (No longer available online.) African Union , February 24, 2013, archived from the original on September 23, 2015 ; Retrieved March 2, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Dominic Johnson : The Addis Agreement first brings war instead of peace. the daily newspaper , February 25, 2013, accessed on March 2, 2013 .
