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Africa Subsaharan
Juba talks - Uganda threatens to walk out over harsh rebel rhetoric
2006-07-16
Juba Peace talks aimed at ending UgandaÂ’s brutal Lords Resistance Army (LRA) insurgency hit a snag on Saturday as the government threatened to walk out over harsh rebel rhetoric, officials said. KampalaÂ’s delegation complained that the LRA had been too "combative" in its opening statement on Friday when the rebels vowed to continue their 19-year war in northern Uganda unless all their grievances were addressed.

"We are very concerned about the combative mood of the LRA delegation. That mood is not good for peace talks. We told them that we cannot continue with that combative mood," Paddy Ankunda, the spokesman for the Ugandan team, said, adding that UgandaÂ’s lead negotiator, Interior Minister Ruhakana Rugunda, was meeting with mediators to unblock the stalemate. "We are ready to compromise because we know who they are," Akunda said.
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