Washington, DC — The expected visit of Congo president Joseph Kabila to the United States for a prayer breakfast and consultations with White House, State department and United Nations officials, has caused many reactions among the Congolese political community.

Says one of the community, Jean Ngalamulume Oscar, president - in exile in the USA of the Convention of the Democratic and Social Institutions (CIDES), "Young Kabila was not invited by the American administration. I am however delighted, of his decision to come to the United States."

Beyond this visit, some observers of the Congolese crisis believe a redistribution of the cards in the country's political scene is near.

"Congo is not a dynasty, a kingdom or a monarchy, Congolese people feel frustrated by the brutal way in which Joseph Kabila seized power," the President of the CIDES says. He wants all actors on Congo's political stage to return to an inter-Congolese dialogue under the auspices of the Gabonese president El Hadji Oumar Bongo and, former Heads of State of Bostwana and Senegal, Ketumile Masire and Abdou Diouf.

According to Oscar, this dialogue could bring the different political leaders to the negotiating table, where reconcilliation and a transitory legal framework could be worked out. Such a framework would initially guarantee, the re-establishment of the broken economic order and then set up a calendar for free and democratic elections throughout the country.

Although they were signed in 1999, the Lusaka Agreements, thought to constitute a solution to Congo's crisis and supported by the international Community, have never been implemented.

Apart from Uganda and Rwanda who support the rebels in their fight against the government in Kinshasa, three other African countries (Angola, Namibia and Zimbabwe) are militarily involved in the fighting in Congo and support the regime in place.