A spokesman for DRC President Felix Tshyseed told the Reuters News Agency that he had received an invitation from Ango for discussion.
Democratic Republic of Kongo and Rwanda-Constructive Government M23 rebels The intermediary Angola has announced that there will be discussions next week.
In a statement issued by President Joao Luureanko on Wednesday, both parties will start a “direct peace negotiation” at Luanda, the capital of Angolan on March 18.
Angola had previously worked as an intermediary in the Eastern DRC conflict, extended in the late January when M23 took possession of Goma’s strategic Eastern Kong City. In February, M23 seized the second largest city of the Eastern Kongo.
The Rwanda conflict refuses to support the M23 armed group, which is spread in the DRC of the 1994 genocide of Rwanda, and there is a struggle for the DRC’s vast mineral resources.
DRC president Felix Tshissey was in Angola on Tuesday to discuss the potential for discussion, and her spokesperson Tina Salama on Wednesday told the Reuters’ news agency that the government had received an invitation from Ango but did not say whether he would take part in the discussion.
M23 Leader Bertrand Bisimava wrote on X that the rebels had forced Tishissekde on the negotiation table, and called it “the only cultured option to solve the current crisis for decades.”
The government has said that at least 7,000 people have died in this conflict since January.
Last week, around 000,2,3 people have fled the country due to the United Nations refugee agency due to an armed conflict. Since January, 1,000 thousand have arrived in Burundi, said Patrick EBA, Deputy Director of International Protection of the Agency.
M23 is one of the 100 armed groups who want to control the resources in Eastern Kong, which is a huge stock of strategic minerals such as Calton, Cobalt, Copper and Lithium.
Army is deployed in East Kong, along with DRC, including South Africa, Burundi and Uganda. The fear of all regional wars that can be like the Kongo War of Kon, who killed millions of people in the 1990s and early age of 1990, and the sixties in the sixties.