(22 Dec 2008)
1. Wide of news conference
2. Cut away of photographer
3. SOUNDBITE: (English) Dr.David Nyekorack-Matsanga, chief negotiator for the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA):
"The LRA / M (Lord's Resistance Army Movement) notes that military strikes code name "Operational Lightning Thunder" have not and will not achieve, and I repeat, will not achieve objectives and will not bring peace in the region and northern Uganda in particular. In fact the operation has only intensified and escalated the 22 year conflict to higher stakes and levels of search for a solution."
4. Various cutaways of media
5. SOUNDBITE: (English) Dr.David Nyekorack-Matsanga, chief negotiator for the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA):
"LRA wants a new mediator on the level of a UN envoy to directly look at the final peace agreement that was mediated by Dr. Riek Machar and GOSS (Government of Southern Sudan). That is the most important, a new mediator directly, not Chissano who sits as an observer instead of him negotiating the conflict. He wants a new mediator who will be directly involved like Obasanjo is involved with the Nkunda issue and Kabila issue. That is what Kony has said."
6. Cutaway of cameraman
7. SOUNDBITE: (English) Dr.David Nyekorack-Matsanga, chief negotiator for the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA):
"The LRA wants Tanzania or South Africa, they are two countries that they want to host the current - they have not said that they want to do away with the peace agreement, no, it is good, there are certain things that are good in the peace agreement - but they want to re-engage reformed peace process in these two countries and then they want Sant'Egidio of Rome, the one NGO that is very, very close to the Vatican, Rome in Italy, to be facilitators, to help the negotiating team in the reformed peace talks that will take place."
8. Wide of the end of news conference
STORYLINE:
A notorious Ugandan rebel group on Monday asked Ugandan, southern Sudanese and the Democratic Republic of Congo forces to end an eight-day offensive against its hideouts in eastern DR Congo so as to give stalled peace talks a chance.
Speaking in Kenya, the chief negotiator for the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), said the offensive which started on December 14, would not achieve its announced objective of destroying the 22-old insurgency and bringing peace to the troubled northern Uganda.
"The operation has only intensified and escalated the 22 year conflict to higher stakes," said David Matsanga on behalf of the LRA's leader Joseph Kony.
The call comes only a day after Uganda's military spokesman said more than 70 percent of the camps used by the rebel LRA in remote eastern Democratic Republic of Congo had been destroyed.
But Matsanga said the LRA's leadership had not been hurt in the attacks. He said he had spoken to his leader a few days ago.
Casualty figures were not immediately clear because the area is so remote.
The LRA has been waging one of Africa's longest and most brutal rebellions for 20 years, drawing in northern Uganda, eastern Congo and southern Sudan.
The rebels were notorious for raping children and using them as soldiers and Kony has been indicted by the International Criminal Court in the Hague for war crimes.
Matsanga also called for changing the venue of the talks from southern Sudan, to South Africa or Tanzania, and replacing the current chief negotiator Sudan's Vice President Riek Machar with a UN envoy.
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