Angolan President João Lourenço has urged Congoman Felix Tshisekedi to fully implement the Doha Peace Process, instead of continuously shifting between mediation frameworks, and abandoning agreements he has already signed.
Tshisekedi recently returned to Luanda, meeting with President Lourenço reportedly to seek his involvement as a mediator in what he calls an “inclusive dialogue” with congolese “to resolve the conflict in eastern Congo.”
However, what Tshisekedi is now demanding from Angola already exists within the Doha Peace Process, an agreement he personally signed. So why is Tshisekedi now withdrawing from the Doha negotiations?
Tshisekedi is erratic, simply.
He binned the Nairobi Process in favor of Luanda. He later abandoned Luanda for Doha. Now he is turning his back on Doha, to circle back to Luanda.
Throughout these shifts, one constant remains: a failure to respect or fully implement even the most basic commitments made in each agreement.
Under the Doha Peace Process, Tshisekedi explicitly agreed to engage in an inclusive dialogue with political opponents and enter into direct negotiations with AFC/M23. But despite signing the agreement, he has failed to honor these obligations.
Rather he is now attempting to bring in President João Lourenço as a new mediator, effectively sidelining the Qatari mediators and undermining the Doha framework altogether.
One has to pity anyone mediating anything involving Tshisekedi.
One of the most contentious issues concerns negotiations with the AFC/M23. Although Tshisekedi committed in Doha to negotiate with the movement, he later changed his mind and introduced new unilateral conditions; most notably demanding that AFC/M23 declare a ceasefire, which he himself would then “evaluate.”
This deranged condition does not exist in the Doha Peace Accords.
Yet Tshisekedi now seeks to impose it through the Luanda channel. But which peace mediation can function when one party both seeks mediation and dictates the terms?
Tshisekedi wants to decide when and how a ceasefire is recognized. And to determine who should be released, and marginalizing mediators when they no longer serve his interests.
This is not the behavior of a leader, but a juvenile delinquent.
He has established a repeated and damaging pattern: abandoning peace processes just before they yield results.
Tshisekedi is too erratic,and has proven beyond a reasonable he is wasting everyone’s time.
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