Kabila's office on Tuesday night released a statement calling on members of a 14-strong commission to hold their first meeting on April 14 and present their nominees for posts in a new transitional government.
The arbitration commission was set up to implement measures for a political transition in the vast, war-ravaged central African country under an agreement signed on April 2 opening the way to a two-year period of power-sharing.
Kabila was sworn in as head of state under a new constitution on Monday and announced his determination rapidly to set up a national unity government and new transitional institutions.
One of the commission's primary tasks will be to consider the cases of candidates for different posts: vice presidencies, government ministers and junior ministers and parliamentary responsibilities.
Apart from Kabila, the commission consists of 13 people, two each from the current government and the political opposition, the two main rebel movements (the Congolese Liberation Movement and the Congolese Rally for Democracy), and from civil society; and one each from the smaller RCD-Liberation Movement and RCD-National and the Mai-Mai tribal militias in the east of the country.
Kabila was Wednesday meeting with Rwandan President Paul Kagame, Tanzanian President Benjamin Mkapa and Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni in South Africa at talks chaired by President Thabo Mbeki.
The aims were to discuss final foreign troop withdrawals and restoring law and order in the still troubled northeast of the country, in the wake of a massacre of ethnic Hemas last week.
The United Nations had initially put the toll in the massacre at 966 dead, but on Wednesday revised it downward to "between 150 and 300 lives" - Sapa-AFP
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