Democratic Republic of the Congo: Tshisekedi’s inaugural presidential visit to the U.S.
- March 26, 2019
- - 5:24 pm
Democratic Republic of the Congo President Félix Tshisekedi is making preparations for an official visit to the United States for early April. The agenda for Tshisekedi’s visit, which will also be his first trip outside of Africa since becoming the Congo’s president on January 24, will be to consolidate U.S recognition of his legitimate presidential election victory, and to float restoring strategic and economic cooperation between the two countries. Tshisekedi’s visit to the U.S. extends from an invitation delivered to him during the February 23 visit to Kinshasa by U.S. Special Envoy for the Great Lakes region J. Peter Pham, …
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