Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
07KINSHASA227
2007-02-23 15:24:00
CONFIDENTIAL
Embassy Kinshasa
Cable title:
DRC, UGANDA AND SOUTHERN SUDAN AGREE TO SHARE
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C O N F I D E N T I A L KINSHASA 000227
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
E.O. 12958: DECL: 02/23/2017
TAGS: PGOV PREL KPKO MOPS UG SU CG
SUBJECT: DRC, UGANDA AND SOUTHERN SUDAN AGREE TO SHARE
INFORMATION ON LRA ACTIVITIES
Classified By: PolOff CBrown, reasons 1.4 b/d.
C O N F I D E N T I A L KINSHASA 000227
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
E.O. 12958: DECL: 02/23/2017
TAGS: PGOV PREL KPKO MOPS UG SU CG
SUBJECT: DRC, UGANDA AND SOUTHERN SUDAN AGREE TO SHARE
INFORMATION ON LRA ACTIVITIES
Classified By: PolOff CBrown, reasons 1.4 b/d.
1. (C) Outgoing DRC Vice Minister of Defense Bernard Mena
told us February 22 that the governments of the DRC, Uganda
and Southern Sudan have agreed to share information regarding
the activities and movements of the Lord's Resistance Army
(LRA). Mena said the agreement was reached after DRC
President Joseph Kabila and Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni
discussed the issue during the December Great Lakes Security
Conference in Nairobi. He added that Congolese military
(FARDC) officials have had several follow-up discussions with
their counterparts in January and February to work out the
modalities of the accord.
2. (C) Mena denied recent media reports that the agreement
includes joint military operations or verification teams. He
stressed that it only allows intelligence-sharing to monitor
LRA activities and is similar to the arrangement of the
Tripartite Plus Fusion Cell involving the governments of the
DRC, Rwanda, Uganda and Burundi. He added that the GDRC has
not granted Uganda or Southern Sudan the right of "hot
pursuit" into the DRC to pursue LRA elements.
3. (C) Mena said an unknown number of LRA elements, including
the group's leader Joseph Kony, are currently in Garamba
National Park in a remote corner of northeast DRC. He said
the group moves easily across the border areas because it
enjoys the support of local tribes spread across all three
countries. Mena did not indicate whether the FARDC had any
immediate plans to initiate operations against the LRA but
admitted the FARDC has few assets in the region.
MEECE
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
E.O. 12958: DECL: 02/23/2017
TAGS: PGOV PREL KPKO MOPS UG SU CG
SUBJECT: DRC, UGANDA AND SOUTHERN SUDAN AGREE TO SHARE
INFORMATION ON LRA ACTIVITIES
Classified By: PolOff CBrown, reasons 1.4 b/d.
1. (C) Outgoing DRC Vice Minister of Defense Bernard Mena
told us February 22 that the governments of the DRC, Uganda
and Southern Sudan have agreed to share information regarding
the activities and movements of the Lord's Resistance Army
(LRA). Mena said the agreement was reached after DRC
President Joseph Kabila and Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni
discussed the issue during the December Great Lakes Security
Conference in Nairobi. He added that Congolese military
(FARDC) officials have had several follow-up discussions with
their counterparts in January and February to work out the
modalities of the accord.
2. (C) Mena denied recent media reports that the agreement
includes joint military operations or verification teams. He
stressed that it only allows intelligence-sharing to monitor
LRA activities and is similar to the arrangement of the
Tripartite Plus Fusion Cell involving the governments of the
DRC, Rwanda, Uganda and Burundi. He added that the GDRC has
not granted Uganda or Southern Sudan the right of "hot
pursuit" into the DRC to pursue LRA elements.
3. (C) Mena said an unknown number of LRA elements, including
the group's leader Joseph Kony, are currently in Garamba
National Park in a remote corner of northeast DRC. He said
the group moves easily across the border areas because it
enjoys the support of local tribes spread across all three
countries. Mena did not indicate whether the FARDC had any
immediate plans to initiate operations against the LRA but
admitted the FARDC has few assets in the region.
MEECE