Bene M'Poko, DRC ambassador to South Africa, said the generals would pick up on "unfinished issues" following a deadlock in talks earlier this month on the structure of an integrated force.
Government representatives have argued for a chief of staff and three deputies, while the country's two main rebel forces, the Congolese Rally for Democracy (RCD) and the Congolese Liberation Movement (MLC) said they wanted a chief of staff and two deputies.
The delegates met at a military installation outside the South African capital to try to flesh out details of the new army for the DRC.
Said M'Poko: "Hopefully the mediation will come up with some proposal." The meeting followed a March 6 signing of a military memorandum and a draft constitutional agreement by the government, rebels and political parties.
The final session of talks to adopt peace and power-sharing arrangements in the DRC will be held at Sun City, in northwestern South Africa on April 1 and 2.
A military agreement was not a pre-requisite for the Inter-Congolese Dialogue to wrap up its work.
The agreements will lead a two-year transitional DRC government to its first democratic elections since those on independence from Belgium four decades ago.
The DRC war broke out in August 1998, and at its height drew in half a dozen other African countries. The conflict has claimed some 2.5 million lives directly or indirectly through disease or starvation - Sapa-AFP
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