DRC: Bush urged to press Rwandans on peace

The International Crisis Group (ICG) urged President George W. Bush in his meeting with Rwanda's President Paul Kagame on 15 April to press the Rwandan government to take concrete action to promote peace in the Congo. In a letter addressed to President Bush ICG has recommended three steps to marginalise the hardliners among the Rwandan Forces Démocratiques pour la Libération du Rwanda (FDLR) rebels operating in the eastern Congo and to encourage the return of the 8,000 to 10,000 FDLR combatants still based in the Congo.