The Congo, M23, the rebels pledged to reach the peace agreement next month star-news.press/wp

The Congo and M23 Rebel Group pledged to sign a peace agreement by August 18, a sign of progress even as negotiating with the distinguished details.

The representatives of both sides were at a party in Doha on Saturday. They signed an advertisement on the principles setting the new schedule, a copy of which was obtained by Reuters.

The ceremony came after months of Qatari mediation after the talks started in April.

The United States, which hosted separate talks between the governments of the Congo and Rwanda, has undergone pressure to end a solid peace agreement in the Congo. President Donald Trump has explained that he hopes to stimulate Western investment in a country rich in gold, gold, cobalt, copper, lehium and other minerals.

Last month, the Rwandan foreign ministers and the Congolese signed a peace deal and met Trump at the White House.

Trump at that time invited Congolese President Felix Chesikde and Rwandan President Paul Kagame to Washington to sign a set of agreements that are likely to be economic offers.

M23, in the latest series of uprisings, took control of Goma, the largest city in the eastern Congo, since late January, and also gained gains throughout North Kivu and South Kivu.

Rwanda has long denied allegations that it helped M23, which seized more lands in the Congo than before. The fighting killed thousands and explained hundreds of others this year, with a widespread regional war risk. Several Congo neighbors had forces deployed in the eastern Congo when progress began.

“A new stage of partnership”

The Minister of State in Qatar for Foreign Affairs, Muhammad bin Abdulaziz Al-Khawla, said in a press conference that the announcement of Saturday “sets the basic work for a new stage of partnership between the various components of society in the Democratic Republic of Congo-including the armed movements that chose the first thing that arouses national attention.”

It led to the talks that followed a sudden meeting between Congolese President Felix Chesikdi and Rwandan Contrapel, R.

The Congo previously rejected the idea of talks with the M23, describing it as a terrorist group.

While her denial supported M23, Rwanda said that her forces had acted in self -defense against the Congo army and the Ethnic Hugo militia associated with the 1994 Rwandan genocide.

Discounts of disagreement

The sources in both delegations expressed their frustration with the pace of negotiations in Doha and the lack of progress in confidence -building measures, including the release of the M23 members kept by the Congo and the reopening of banks in the land -controlled lands.

The declaration of principles is not permissible, and instead the parties are obliged to “create the necessary conditions” to do so in the end.

It also does not address greater questions regarding the withdrawal of Rwandans and the M23 from the east of the Congo. She says that Congo and M23 agree to restore the authority of the state “on all national lands” as part of a peace agreement in the end, but it does not give details.

On Saturday, the Congo government spokesman Patrick Moyaya said on Saturday.

The negotiations related to the Peace Agreement are the start of a date not exceeding August 8, according to the announcement, which would give the parties less than two weeks to put the final touches on a deal if the new deadline is held on August 18.

“We are confident and hope,” said Masad Paulus, the chief of Trump’s adviser to Africa, to Reuters after Saturday in Doha.