11.   Only Angola, however, gave public backing to the new Congolese president.

12.   The Congolese president promised the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Bill Richardson, that the investigation could begin in early July.

13.   This week the Congolese president said he was not focusing on recapturing territories in eastern Congo still controlled by rebel forces.

14.   Uganda and Rwanda accuse the Congolese president of enlisting thousands of Rwandan and Ugandan rebels with bases eastern Congo.

15.   U.N. investigators arrived in the country last month after repeated delays by Kabila, who is now the Congolese president.

16.   U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan was expected to discuss with Rwandan and Congolese presidents what mandate and role the United Nations can play in Congo.

17.   Visiting Congolese president Joseph Kabila blamed the United Nations and the Organization of African Unity for not doing their part to help end the civil war in his country.

18.   Zimbabwe, Angola and Namibia moved in to back the Congolese president.

19.   The trial in absentia of former Congolese president Pascal Lissouba and four of his ministers, accused of treason and embezzlement, opened Thursday in the capital Brazzaville.

20.   The Congolese president is the second leader to have meet the Zairean president at his villa, where he is convalescing following surgery for prostate cancer in Switzerland.