Officers from Rwanda and DR Congo are set to satisfy in Geneva on September 16-17 for the seventh assembly of the Joint Safety Coordination Mechanism (JSCM) for the implementation of the Washington Accords.
Officers didn’t disclosed particulars of the gadgets on Wednesday's agenda.
The assembly comes after the 2 international locations agreed at their earlier JSCM session on August 12-13 to advance two initiatives geared toward strengthening the monitoring and verification of the implementation of the Washington Accords on the bottom.
Rwanda and DR Congo requested the USA to think about the 2 undisclosed initiatives and supply suggestions at their subsequent JSCM assembly.
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The Washington Accords of December 4, 2025 reaffirm the commitments made by Rwandan and Congolese international ministers underneath the June 27, 2025 Peace Settlement, notably on the neutralisation of the FDLR and Rwanda’s lifting of defensive measures in opposition to the risk. The JSCM was established to assist coordinate and monitor the implementation of those safety commitments between the 2 international locations.
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The sixth JSCM assembly was held in Geneva on August 12-13 and likewise noticed DR Congo current its Disarmament, Demobilisation and Reintegration (DDR) plan for the FDLR and reply to questions from members of the mechanism.
Contributors subsequently held a digital session with the UN safety mission in DR Congo (MONUSCO) to attract on its operational expertise in conducting DDR programmes within the area.
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The events additionally agreed to carry a trilateral planning convention in October, which is able to culminate in a revised Operations Order to information their coordinated efforts.
The talks come as key safety commitments underneath the Washington peace course of stay unresolved, notably the neutralization of the FDLR by DR Congo which is a key element.
Regardless of months into the method, the FDLR continued to function alongside Congolese forces (FARDC) on frontlines in japanese DR Congo.
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Extra lately, on September 8, greater than 50 members of the FDLR and different militias had been voluntarily repatriated to Rwanda and brought to the Mutobo Demobilisation Centre in Musanze District, along with 69 dependants. Some had surrendered to MONUSCO, whereas others surrendered to the AFC/M23 motion.
They adopted one other cohort that had been discharged from Mutobo two days later.
On September 10, as much as 416 former members of armed teams based mostly in DR Congo, civilians related to the militias and their dependants had been discharged from Mutobo centre.
comprising 130 former members of the FDLR and different armed teams, 79 civilians who had intently collaborated with the militias and 207 dependants, together with 143 school-age kids prepared to start or resume nursery and first schooling.
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The FDLR stays a central safety concern for Rwanda due to its hyperlinks to forces answerable for the 1994 Genocide in opposition to the Tutsi in Rwanda. The UN- and US-sanctioned militia has operated in japanese DR Congo for many years and has launched assaults on Rwanda and led violence concentrating on Banyamulenge and communities Tutsi communities in DR Congo.
