If this happens, the treaty provision monitoring committee would be to blame,'' says Boungouanza The spokesperson for the Congolese government, Francois Ibovi says the government approves of the idea of a national dialogue. The peace process is about to intensify. In the interests of the country, President Sassou Nguesso is ready to sit down with whatever party is ready to keep the peace'', he said. According to Ibovi when the ''national dialogue'' was over, a government of national unity would be installed. Ibovi, who is also the Communications Minister, did not provide information as to where the dialogue would take place.
All political tendencies are to be included, from exiled dissidents to civil society.
A source close to the president in Brazzaville says that the dialogue may take place in Gabon, whose president, Omar Bongo, was designated as the mediator. Colonel Boungouanza did sign the accords, but that does not make him the monitoring committee's spokesperson. His role is to get his rebels out of the forest, not to go talking to the media''. General Mbaye accused Colonel Boungouanza of not respecting his commitments and asked him to abstain from making comments that cause despondancy among the people. The Gabonese president recently declared that the inter- Congolese national dialogue would finally take place this year.