Washington, DC — Between the Authorities of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Authorities of the Republic of Rwanda (the Participants), in strengthen of a pathway to peace, steadiness, and integrated economic pattern in the eastern DRC location and the resumption of standard bilateral relations between the Participants. Signature of this record affirms the political commitment of the Participants set up forth herein.
1. SOVEREIGNTY, TERRITORIAL INTEGRITY, AND GOVERNANCE
- The Participants mutually acknowledge every other’s sovereignty and territorial integrity and decide to a pathway to web to the bottom of their disputes by silent manner grounded in diplomacy and negotiation rather than opposed drive or rhetoric.
- The Participants mutually acknowledge every other’s established territorial borders and decide to refrain from actions or rhetoric that threaten or quiz the validity of these borders.
- The Participants acknowledge every Participant’s sovereign stunning to govern and administer its have territory in a vogue that would now not infringe on the other Participant’s sovereignty or territorial integrity .
- The Participants decide to refrain from interfering in every other’s inner affairs.
2. SECURITY CONCERNS
The Participants acknowledge they both accept as true with professional security concerns in their shared border location and decide to handle such concerns in a vogue in step with both Participants’ sovereignty and territorial integrity..
The Participants acknowledge that peace, security, and steadiness are fundamental to expand professional commercial swap and broader regional economic cooperation.
The Participants acknowledge their shared pastime in limiting the proliferation of non- state armed groups within and right by map of their borders and decide to refrain from offering state militia strengthen to non-state armed groups .
The Participants decide to search out the establishment of a joint security coordination mechanism to counter non-state armed groups and felony organizations that threaten the Participants’ professional security concerns.
3. REGIONAL ECONOMIC INTEGRATION FRAMEWORK
- The Participants decide to a phased regional economic integration framework building on existing efforts, reminiscent of the ICGLR, COMESA, and the EAC, that offers both Participants with expanded foreign swap and funding and introduces larger transparency to make positive that both Participants prosper from the location’s pure resources by map of mutually valuable partnerships and funding opportunities.
- The Participants query this framework to be accompanied by the starting up or enlargement of fundamental investments, including these facilitated by the S. government and U.S. non-public sector, geared toward reworking the regional economic system to the succor of all collaborating worldwide locations.
- The Participants decide to search out recommendations to hyperlink this framework to other world or regional economic pattern initiatives, including in infrastructure
- The Participants decide to starting up and/or expand cooperation on shared priorities reminiscent of hydropower pattern; national park management; derisking of mineral provide chains; and clear, formalized, and licit pause-to-pause mineral value chains (from mine to processed steel) that hyperlink both worldwide locations, in partnership with the S. government and U.S. traders.
4. RETURN OF IDPs AND REFUGEES
- The Participants commit, with the strengthen of UN companies and applicable humanitarian organizations, to facilitate the protected and voluntary return of IDPs to their current areas of problem in eastern DRC following the return of peace to these areas, apart from to DRC electorate who were displaced by battle and at the moment live in Rwanda or other worldwide locations, in a vogue in step with their world upright duties .
5. MONUSCO AND REGIONAL FORCES AND MECHANISMS
- The Participants decide to strengthen MONUSCO in step with its mandate and decide to offer protection to, facilitate, and promote MONUSCO’s skill to offer protection to civilian populations and build all duties mandated by the UNSC, including functions that strengthen the implementation of UNSC Resolution 2773.
- The Participants decide to offer protection to, facilitate, and promote the skill of MONUSCO and regional forces and mechanisms to behave in step with their respective mandates, including as fundamental for an agreed-upon verification mechanism and inter-positional drive to facilitate the perfect faith implementation of these Options by the Participants and non-state armed groups.
6. PEACE AGREEMENT
- In furtherance of these Options, in step with the Nairobi Route of and the Luanda Route of, now merged under the EAC-SADC framework, as urged by the AU under President Gnassingbe’s facilitation, taking into consideration the newest Doha talks between the government of DRC, the government of Rwanda and M23/AFC and in cooperation and session with the U.S. government, the Participants decide to coordinate by map of existing channels to generate an initial draft Peace Settlement for the Participants’ mutual overview no later than Could 2.
- To web to the bottom of disagreements round the draft text of the Peace Settlement, the Participants decide to meet at the Foreign Minister stage in Washington, C., hosted by the U.S. Department of Boom.
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Signed at Washington on April 25, 2025, in reproduction, in the English language.
FOR THE GOVERNMENT OF THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO
Thérèse Kayikwamba Wagner Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation
FOR THE GOVERNMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF RWANDA
Olivier J.P. Nduhungirehe Minister of Foreign Affairs and Worldwide Cooperation
Witnessed by: THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
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Marco Rubio
Secretary of Boom
LIST OF ACRONYMS
AU – African Union
DRC – Democratic Republic of Congo
EAC – East African Group
IDPs – Internally Displaced Other folk
MONUSCO – United Worldwide locations Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
SADC – Southern African Building Group
UN – United Worldwide locations
UNSC – United Worldwide locations Security Council
