The announcement was made on Saturday by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Téte António, at the end of a meeting between João Lourenço and his Congolese counterpart, Félix Tshisekedi, in Kinshasa, capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRCongo).
The previous day, the President had met in Kigali (Rwanda) with his Rwandan counterpart, with the same objective, having returned to Luanda on Saturday night.
Cited by Jornal de Angola, the head of diplomacy told journalists that "everyone agrees that the Luanda Roadmap is the political solution" indicated.
Without wanting to detail the discussions taking place between Kigali and Kinshasa, Téte António said that the head of state had presented "concrete proposals for the parties to analyze at the appropriate time and see how they can move forward".
João Lourenço, mandated by the African Union, has been carrying out a mediation process to end the conflicts between DRCongo and Rwanda and restore peace in eastern DRCongo, which has been experiencing an escalation of armed rebellion since late 2021.
According to the Angop news agency, changes on the ground with the worsening of tension between the two countries led Angola to propose a readaptation of the methodology provided for in the Luanda Roadmap for Peace, adopted during a tripartite summit held in the Angolan capital in June this year. year, aiming to boost its implementation.
Also within the framework of this instrument, Téte António confirmed that he had presented, on Wednesday, in Goma, capital of the Congolese eastern province of North Kivu, the Angolan general who will lead the Ad-Hoc Verification Mechanism of the peace process in the eastern region from DR Congo.
This is Lieutenant General Nassone João, whose team will have, among other tasks, to investigate on the ground the veracity of the accusations raised by the parties in order to better identify the appropriate solutions, says the Angolan news agency.
The Presidency of the Republic said, on its Facebook page, that "diplomatic initiatives will continue to be developed around the security crisis that has settled in the East of the Democratic Republic of Congo, with mutual accusations between Kigali and Kinshasa".
Angola and Rwanda are part of the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (CIRGL), the Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS) and the African Union (AU), and have a close relationship.
Tensions are related to the activity of the M23 armed movement in northeast DR Congo, which Kinshasa claims is supported by Kigali.
Rwanda has repeatedly denied the allegations and, in turn, accuses DRCongo of supporting another rebel movement, the Democratic Liberation Forces of Rwanda (FDLR), in a crisis fueled by the consolidated advance of the M23 in some areas of North Kivu province, which culminated in early November with the expulsion of the Rwandan ambassador to Kinshasa, Vincent Karenga.
The M23 has been accused since November 2021 of carrying out attacks against DR Congo Army positions in North Kivu, seven years after the two sides reached a truce.
New peace talks from 21 November in Nairobi
Peace negotiations regarding the situation in DR Congo are due to start on 21 November in Nairobi, the Community of East African States (ECA) announced on Sunday.
A recent offensive by the M23 group, a former Tutsi rebellion, which recovered the use of weapons at the end of 2021, saw a group advance towards Goma, capital of the North Kivu province, with more than one million inhabitants, and is fuel tensions between DRCongo and Rwanda. Kinshasa accuses Kigali of supporting the M23, which is denied by the Rwandan authorities.
"The next peace dialogue session on the situation in eastern DR Congo is scheduled to take place on 21 November in Nairobi", the capital of Kenya, the CEA announced in a statement published on the social network Twitter, without specifying who the participants are. .
The renewed violence of the M23 has provoked renewed tension between DRCongo and Rwanda, accused by Kinshasa, since the beginning of the year, of actively supporting this rebellion.
ECA peace facilitator in eastern DR Congo, former Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta, and Burundi President Evariste Ndayishimiye arrived in Kinshasa on Sunday for a two-day visit.
