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Peace deal signing ceremony between Congo and M23 rebels delayed

by Reuters
Monday, 11 November 2013 18:08 GMT

ENTEBBE, Uganda, Nov 11 (Reuters) - A ceremony to wrap up a peace deal between Congo and defeated M23 rebels was delayed on Monday evening after the two sides disagreed on the wording of the pact, a Ugandan minister said.

The agreement aimed at ending the Democratic Republic of Congo's most serious conflict in a decade was due to be signed in Entebbe at 6 p.m. (1500 GMT).

"The stumbling point is the parties cannot agree on whether they are signing a peace agreement or a declaration. They agree on the content, but not the title. The Congolese government says it came here to sign a declaration," Uganda's Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Okello Oryem told Reuters. (Reporting by Richard Lough; Writing by James Macharia; Editing by Andrew Heavens)

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