In order to participate in the 11th High Level Segment of the Regional Oversight Mechanism (ROM) of the Peace, Security and Cooperation (PSC) Framework for the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and the Great Lakes Region, President Cyril Ramaphosa is scheduled to go to Burundi today.
Alvin Botes, the deputy minister for international relations and cooperation, is anticipated to accompany the president.
The meeting will be conducted, according to a statement from the presidency, in response to the “deteriorating political and security situation in the Eastern DRC caused by a resurgence of the M23 Movement,” which has strained relations between the DRC and its neighbor Rwanda in central Africa.
“Various initiatives aimed at de-escalating tensions between the two countries will be updated for the meeting. The deployment of East African Community (EAC) troops and their involvement in countering adversarial groups, particularly the M23, in the eastern DRC will be discussed at the summit.
The summit will concentrate on the framework’s revitalization and take a look at a plan to make this possible because 2023 will mark the PSC Framework’s tenth anniversary. The current issue brought on by the fighting between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces is likely to be tackled at the summit, according to the statement.
On the week of May 6, from Thursday to Saturday, the summit is anticipated to take place. The PSC Framework, also known as the Addis Abeba Agreement, was reached about ten years ago, and the Presidency thought back on its history.
Angola, Burundi, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, South Africa, South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia were among the signatories at the time. Sudan and Kenya joined as the framework’s 12th and 13th signatories in the beginning of 2014.
The primary goal of the PSC Framework is to put a stop to the vicious cycles of warfare in eastern DRC that have an adverse effect on the peace and progress of the Great Lakes area. The Great Lakes Region and eastern DRC conflict’s core causes are also addressed by the framework, according to the Presidency.
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