December 10, 2008: Tripartite Plus Commission-Final Document
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Tripartite Plus Commission-Final Document
The United States sponsored a meeting of the Tripartite Plus Commission in Kigali, Rwanda from December 9-10. Tripartite Plus is a confidence-building forum that was established by the United States in 2006 to facilitate dialogue and understanding between the nations of Africa's Great Lakes Region: the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Burundi, Rwanda, and Uganda.
Chaired by Karl Wycoff, Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Central and Eastern African Affairs, the meeting focused on the situation in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Senior coordinator for the Tripartite Plus is Ambassador Joyce Leader. Delegations were headed by the Foreign Minister of each nation.
An important development at this meeting was the decision by the ministers to create a "working group or similar organization to consider security and economic measures aimed at curbing the negative forces and other illegal networks from their ability to finance their violent activities."
Final Communique (PDF 51.44kb)