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http://www.africanews.org/central/congo-kinshasa/stories/19990302_feat2.html
Kinshasa Warns Against Foreign Interference In DRC
Conflict
March 2, 1999
Kinshasa, Congo (PANA) - The Congolese government has expressed "indignation" in the face of the scheming of "certain personalities and so-called friendly countries which go as far as to speak and take sides in the name of the Democratic Republic of Congo."
Senior Congolese minister at the president's office, Victor Mpoyo, expressed the dissatisfaction at a press conference on Monday at the beginning of a four- nation summit in Kinshasa on the DRC crisis, citing the case of the bishop of the Congolese city of Kisangani, Laurent Monsengwo Pasinya.
Monsengwo recently met South-African authorities, and was reported to have discussed the crisis in the DRC.
Mpoyo said Monsengwo who served as speaker of Congo's transitional parliament for seven years, "was not mandated to speak or talk about Congo."
Mpoyo also criticized what he called the "abnormal move" of the American under -secretary of state for political affairs, who, he said, held discussions with Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe on the Congolese conflict before his departure for the Kinshasa summit, gathering Angola, Zimbabwe, Namibia and the DRC.
"He speaks with DRC neighbours while Congolese leaders are prepared to receive him," Mpoyo said, adding that "the last say in the Congo crisis will eventually be decided by Congolese leaders".