Ugandan president appeals to rebel leader to sign peace agreement

APA-Kampala (Uganda) President Yoweri Museveni has again appealed to the leader of the rebel Lords Resistance Army (LRA), Gen. Joseph Kony, to come out of the jungles and sign the peace accord.

The President made the appeal on Monday during a meeting with South Sudan Vice-President Dr. Riak Machar that took place in Kampala.

Officials of the Juba Peace Talks from the Government of Uganda, the Government of South Sudan and the LRA attended the meeting.

President Museveni said Kony understands fully the Matoput process (local justice system of determining reparations for wrong doers).

South Sudan Vice-President Dr. Riak Machar echoed the call on Kony to come out and sign the peace agreement and assured him that he would be briefed on the way forward with regard to the International Criminal Court (ICC) which has indicted the rebel leader.

The leader of LRA peace team at the Juba talks Mr. Nyekorach Matsanga, said his team needs to have the ICC indictment lifted as a precondition to the signature by Kony.

Matsanga then seized the opportunity to appeal for food supplies to the LRA.

The meeting was attended by several senior government officials.

source.apa