Programme of Implementation of the Peace Agreement Between the Governments of the Republic of Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo on the Withdrawal of the Rwandan Troops from the Territory of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Dismantling of the Ex-FAR and Interahamwe Forces in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)

The governments of the Republic of Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, with the understanding that;

• The third party, defined in the main agreement as the Secretary General of the United Nations and South Africa, in its dual capacity as Chairperson of the African Union and as facilitator, will throughout the process of implementing the programme as agreed to by the parties, take authority over the management of the programme.
  
  
• The Third party commits itself to continuously overseeing and verifying the processes that will be undertaken by both parties in the spirit of executing the commitments made in the Peace Agreement.
  
  
• The Third party shall establish, for the purpose of overseeing and verifying the implementation of this programme, a Permanent Secretariat, to be determined by the third party.
  
  
• Both Parties further agree to commit themselves to accepting as final, verification reports by the third party and consider this agreement to be binding.

hereby commit themselves to the following calendar of events:

Principle in Peace Agreement	Activity	Time Frame	Responsibility
	Formal signing of the Agreement between Government of Rwanda and the DRC on the Withdrawal of the Rwandan troops from the DRC territory and dismantling of the ex-FAR and Interahamwe forces in the DRC, in the presence of the UN Secretary General and President Thabo Mbeki, Chairperson of the African Union.	D1	Governments of Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Third party
5	Declaration of withdrawal by the Government of Rwanda on the basis of this agreement and the time-table thereof.	D1	Rwanda
	Rwanda to submit detailed plans/programme for withdrawal.	D5–10	Rwanda
8.6	Establishment of the verification mechanism and implementation structure by the third party, (in liaison with signatories, where necessary)	D5–90	Third Party
8.5	Communication of information to the third party's verification structure on relevant matters by both parties, including information on ex-FAR and Interahamwe	D5–90	Rwanda and DRC
8.6	Verification process of information received begins	D10–90	Third Party
8.9	Finalisation of MONUC Phase 3 Deployment	D1–15	MONUC
7	Establishment and operationalisation of the assembly points for the holding of ex-FAR and Interahamwe, including securing of the assembly points in terms of MONUC and JMC processes	D5–25	MONUC, JMC and Third party
8.6	Verification of the establishment and functionality of assembly points	D5–75	Third party
8.1	Tracking down, disarming and dismantling Interahamwe and ex-FAR leaders and troops	D10–90	MONUC, DRC, JMC, Rwanda1, and Third party
8.9	Movement to assembly areas of ex-FAR and Interahamwe and its leadership	D15–90	MONUC
	Verification/monitoring of dismantling and cessation of support to ex-FAR and Interahamwe	D10–90	Third party, JMC and MONUC
8.4	Repatriation of ex-FAR and Interahamwe forces	D30–90	Rwanda, DRC, MONUC and Third party
5 and 8.3	Verification of process of repatriation	D30–90	Third party
5	Withdrawal of Rwandan troops	D45–90	Rwanda
8.6	Verification of process of withdrawal	D45–90	Third party and MONUC
8.6	Final verification process on completion of the 90 Days Programme of Action	D90–120	Third party
	Submission of final report	D90–120	Third party
	Normalisation of relations between the two countries	D1 – ongoing	DRC and Rwanda

1. Rwanda's and DRC's participation will depend on the extent to which they control the areas related to the task, as determined by the Third party.

	(signed) H.E. Mr Paul Kagame President For the Government of the Republic of Rwanda		(signed) H.E. Mr Joseph Kabila President For the Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
	(signed) H.E. Mr Thabo M. Mbeki President of the Republic of South Africa		(signed) H.E. Mr Kofi Annan Secretary-General of the United Nations

For the Third Party

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Posted by USIP Library on: September 23 2002
Source Name: Text received via e-mail from the Republic of South Africa, Department of Foreign Affairs
Date emailed: August 13 2002

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