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Congo (MRB Dec 2001): Transitional leadership remains sticking point for warring parties.
(MRB Dec 2001) Preliminary meetings in Abuja, Nigeria, between representatives of the warring parties in the DR Congo have lead to stalemate. As a result the planned summit which the Belgian diplomats have been trying to convene between President Joseph Kabila and the leaders of the Movement of Liberation of Congo (MLC), Jean-Pierre Bemba and of the Congolese Rally for Democracy (CRD), Adolphe Onusumba, has been postponed to January. The representatives' preliminary discussions from December 6 to the 8 failed to agree on three key issues, and this made the meeting of their leaders impossible.
The main stumbling block was the leadership during the transition period. The Belgian foreign ministry had tried to sell the idea of a triumvirate with several scenarios.
* The first would have been a rotating presidency of one year for each leader.
* The second was to designate Kabila as president, Bemba as first vice-president and Onusumba as second vice-president.
* Another was to attribute the post of prime minister to one of the two leaders.
All these plans collapsed in Abuja as the Kinshasa government delegation defended the alternative plan of organising elections immediately after the inter-Congolese dialogue, while Kabila would retain the presidency.
A second bone of contention was the continuation of the fighting in the eastern part of the country, where the Rwandan-backed CRD faces the Mai-Mai fighters and attacks from the ex-Rwandan Armed Forces.
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