The People’s Republic of Congo and Rwanda in Washington, with US mediation, signed a peacekeeping agreement, putting an end to long -term negotiations aimed at dying violence in the eastern GDC, as Reuters reports.

This agreement was based on the Declaration of Authorities approved by the two countries in April and foresees measures for “territorial integrity and ending hostilities” in eastern Congo, following the recent attacks by the M23 armed movement.

At Washington’s signing ceremony in Washington were the Foreign Ministers of LD Congo and Rwana, Teres Kagikuaba Wagner and Olivier Dukegireche, as well as their US counterpart Marko Rubio.

“It’s an important moment, after thirty years of war,” Rubio stressed, but noting that “there are still a lot left.”

The agreement “is based on the commitment that the support of democratic forces for the liberation of Rwanda (FDLR, an armed organization of Hutu acting in the Eastern Congo LD) and the militias associated with them will be irrevocably ended,” Duchegira said.

President Trump’s adviser on African issues, Masand Boulos, said that Kigali is committed to “lifting the defensive measures” it is implementing, although the agreement does not specifically refer to the M23 organization.

The peace deal “is just the beginning, not the end,” said the LD Congo Foreign Minister.

The two ministers will later be accepted to the White House by President Donald Trump who greeted the signing of the deal earlier. “You know, they’ve been fighting for years. And there were Matsettes. It was violent. And today we are signing a peace agreement. For the first time for many years, they will experience peace. It’s a big deal, “he assured.

The agreement reached by the representatives of the two countries, after three days of “constructive dialogue” in the US capital, includes measures to disarm the organizations and the conditional incorporation of their members, as well as a “common coordinating mechanism for security issues”. Rwanda should withdraw its soldiers (estimated at 7,000) from Congo’s LD within 90 days.

Qatar had also intervened to reach a peace agreement and in mid -March welcomed Congo’s LD presidents Felix Chiskendi and Rwana Paul Kagaame. The two leaders may be accepted by Trump in July.

One source told the French agency that Washington undertook negotiations between the Rwanda governments and the Congo GN while Qatar intervened between Kinshasa and the M23 organization. This armed organization, militarily supported by Rwanda – according to UN and US experts – occupied the big cities of Goma and Boukavo in the winter, with a lightning attack that claimed the lives of thousands of people.

The East Congo’s Eastern LD is an area rich in ores but has been plagued by wars and conflicts for 30 years. In 2021 the ceasefire was violated when the M23 re -armed and from hostilities displaced hundreds of thousands of people, causing a great humanitarian crisis.

Rwanda denies that it supports the M23 but claims that its safety is threatened by the armed organizations, in particular by the FDLR, an organization set up by former Hutu leaders linked to the 1994 genocide.

Minimum details were revealed about the financial part of the agreement. Earlier, however, Trump said the US would obtain “mining rights” in Congo, a country, which is the largest cobalt producer in the world and is estimated that its subsoil hides 60% of global tantalite reserves, a critical ore for the electronic industry.