Assembly/AU/3 (X) Page 10 reforms concerning the justice sector. Parliament also declared itself in favor of the ratification of the Security, Stability and Development Pact of the Great Lakes Region signed on 15 December 2006, as part of the process of the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region. 44. This positive development was followed by marked improvement in the regional climate. Thus, at the invitation of his Congolese counterpart, the Rwandan Foreign Minister undertook a working visit to Kinshasa, from 2 to 4 September 2007. The two delegations discussed the security situation in the East of the DRC, and agreed on the need to set up a consultation, monitoring and evaluation mechanism for management of their mutual commitments. Additionally, following the incidents that occurred on Lake Albert, through which runs the border between the DRC and Uganda, Presidents Joseph Kabila and Yoweri Museveni met in Tanzania at the invitation of President Jakaya Kikwete. In a joint Communiqué issued at the end of the meeting, the two Heads of State reaffirmed their commitment to the ideals and principles enshrined in the United Nations Charter, the Constitutive Act of the African Union and in the Security, Stability and Development Pact for the Great Lakes Region. It is encouraging to note that the two countries took a decision to fully restore their diplomatic relations. 45. While the political situation and relations with the neighboring countries gradually improved, the security and humanitarian situation in the Kivus, in general, and in North Kivu, in particular, continued to be a source of major concern. On this score, the threat that the ex-FAR/Interahamwé have continued to pose to peace and security in the DRC and in the region at large should not be ignored. The Congrès national pour la défense du peuple (CNDP), a political cum military movement created by the dissident General Laurent Nkunda, constituted further source of serious concern. Furthermore, the humanitarian situation engendered by the current fighting and violence in North Kivu have become quite worrying. 46. At its 97th Meeting held on 25 October 2007, the PSC strongly condemned the acts perpetrated by General Laurent Nkunda and his men, and urged them to rejoin, without delay, the integration centers with a view to their integration into the Congolese army. It also, just as firmly, condemned the acts of destabilization in the region, and the violence unleashed against the people by the ex-FAR/Interahamwé, the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) and the other armed groups operating in the East of the DRC. 47. In this connection, it is important to mention the Tripartite + meeting, under the facilitation of the Government of the United States of America, held in Kampala from 15 to 17 September 2007. The meeting took important decisions reflected in a document entitled “Strategies to put an end to the threats to regional security by negative forces". This ministerial meeting was followed by that of the leadership of the armed forces and intelligence services of the concerned countries, held in Lubumbashi, on 1 and 2 October 2007. In addition, in the margin of the meeting of the Inter-Ministerial Committee of the process of the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region, held in Nairobi from 7 to 9 November 2007, the Foreign Ministers of the DRC and Rwanda, under the auspices of the United Nations, signed an agreement in which their two countries agreed on “a common approach to the threat posed by the ex-FAR/Interahamwé to security and stability in their two