From Africa Recovery, Vol.14#1 (April 2000), page 19 (box within article on UN peacekeeping)

Key provisions of the Lusaka cease-fire agreement

The Lusaka agreement recognizes the internal and external aspects of the conflict by linking the following: internal democratization and national reconciliation in the Democratic Republic of Congo; respect for its sovereignty; withdrawal of foreign forces and accommodation of the legitimate security interests of neighbouring states. Its clauses include:

-- Cessation of hostilities within 24 hours of the signing of the cease-fire agreement; a ban on disseminating hostile propaganda, harassing civilians, inciting ethnic hatred and moving arms and war material to the field

-- Establishment of a Joint Military Commission (JMC) comprising representatives of the belligerents. Working with UN and OAU observers, it is to oversee troop disengagement, develop procedures for disarming, demobilizing and reintegrating combatants, and ensure compliance with the cease-fire until UN peacekeepers arrive

-- Release of prisoners and hostages; establishment of safe corridors for moving and distributing humanitarian aid

-- Re-establishment of government administration, resumption of health, education and other services, and free movement of people and goods throughout the country

-- Selection of a mediator and beginning of an inclusive inter-Congolese dialogue based on mutual respect and equality before the law for all ethnic groups and nationalities within the DRC. Out of this dialogue shall emerge agreement on the composition of a new national army, a new constitution and free elections

-- Deployment of an "appropriate" UN peacekeeping force (within 120 days of the signing of the agreement) to monitor the cease-fire, investigate violations with the JMC; disarm, demobilize and reintegrate armed groups; arrest perpetrators of crimes against humanity, including people suspected of involvement in genocide in Rwanda; and oversee the withdrawal of foreign forces from the DRC

-- Cooperation in security matters along common borders; no arming, training or harbouring of armed opposition groups intent on destabilizing neighbouring states

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