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                       DRC, Rwandan Presidents Hold Talks

   by VOA News

   The leaders of the Democratic Republic of Congo and neighboring Rwanda
   are meeting to discuss the situation in eastern Congo, where rebels
   have taken control of the key city of Goma.
   DRC President Joseph Kabila and Rwandan President Paul Kagame met
   Tuesday night in Uganda's capital, Kampala, and were due to hold talks
   Wednesday mediated by Ugandan leader Yoweri Museveni.
   Ugandan officials say Museveni urged the two leaders to talk, as the
   situation in Congo deteriorated.
   The DRC accuses Rwanda of backing the M23 rebels - a charge borne out
   by a United Nations report and denied by Rwanda.  Congolese leaders
   have refused to hold direct talks with the rebels unless Rwanda is
   included.
   The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously Tuesday to impose sanctions
   against M23 leaders.  The French-sponsored resolution demands that the
   rebels immediately pull out of Goma, located on the Rwandan border, and
   condemns all foreign support for the group.
   Earlier Tuesday, M23 fighters seized Goma with no resistance, after
   Congolese troops fled and 1,500 U.N. peacekeepers stood by.
   French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said Tuesday it is "absurd" that
   there are 17,000 peacekeepers in all of Congo and they could not stop
   several hundred men. He called for a review of the peacekeepers'
   mandate.
   The U.N. says about 1 million people are in Goma, many of them
   displaced from other areas by earlier fighting between the army and
   M23. The city is the capital of mineral-rich North Kivu province, where
   the government and U.N. peacekeepers have tried to subdue local rebel
   and militia groups for years.
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