The meeting, which was designed to promote confidence between the major ethnic groups in the area and to ease the reunification of the province of North Kivu, constituted a first concrete step in cooperation between local forces.
这次会议的目的是增加该地区主要部族之间的相互信任，并促进北基伍省的统一，是各派地方势力进行合作的第一个具体步骤。