During Tuesday's State Department press briefing, Spokesperson Tammy Bruce answered questions about an upcoming meeting with the DRC and Rwanda.
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00:00All right. Yes, sir.
00:01Yes. Hi. Thanks, Tammy.
00:03U.S. Special Envoy for Africa, Massad Boulos, suggested on X that the DRC and Rwanda have submitted draft proposals ahead of a peace plan.
00:14And parallel to that, the Rwanda's foreign minister today actually told AFP that they had agreed and set out on a calendar
00:25and that there would be a meeting of the foreign ministers end of May or mid-May in Washington
00:32and then a final, hopefully, peace agreement in June in Washington.
00:38Can you confirm any of those?
00:39Well, what I can confirm is this.
00:42Of course, the important historic meeting that Secretary Rubio established that happened on April 25th
00:49with the foreign ministers of the DRC and Rwanda occurred, of course.
00:54And at this meeting, both sides committed to reaching a resolution.
00:58This is a decades-old conflict.
01:00And they signed a Declaration of Principles.
01:03The date involved in that was May 2nd, which was a date for them to make additional outlines of what it was they were going to do
01:12to reach that principle and that goal of ending that conflict.
01:17So that was outlined in the Declaration of Principles.
01:20Both of them, in fact, by that date, submitted the inputs, their ideas for a draft peace agreement and a roadmap for peace.
01:29When we think about the remarkable establishment of this, some conflicts that are so old or not as looked at as much as others that are in the world,
01:40we are working on all of them, and this was a tremendous achievement.
01:44So both did meet that deadline.
01:46We welcome, of course, those details and recognize this is an important step toward fulfilling the commitments made in that Declaration of Principles.
01:54And we are going to build on the momentum and continue to work with African Union partners and both of the parties
02:00to get to an agreement that delivers a durable peace, economic prosperity, and stability in the region.
02:07Senior Advisor Boulos' meetings in Doha last week, in fact, were a further step toward that goal.
02:13And that's all I can report to you.
02:15But it's more good news.
02:17What do we know?
02:17Yes, sir.