Great Lakes: Three longtime foes agree to new peace mechanism

The foreign affairs ministers of Rwanda, Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) agreed on Tuesday to create a tripartite commission to ensure that existing agreements concerning peace and security in the region would be properly implemented and that disagreements between the governments would be ironed out. At a news conference in Kigali, the Rwandan capital, the ministers spoke of a new era in regional relations. They would not be drawn into a discussion on current hostilities in Congo's North and South Kivu provinces.