"Sir Ketumile Masire briefed President Museveni on the steps so far being taken to reconcile all the political and fighting groups of the DRC to ensure that peace is restored in that country," the statement from Museveni's office said.
Masire, a Botswanan former president, met Museveni in the Ugandan leader's private home in Kisozi outside Kampala.
Delegates from the DRC government, opposition parties, rebel groups, armed factions and civil society are gathering in South Africa until next week to discuss the details of a peace deal signed in December.
The accord aims at creating a power-sharing government to lead the vast central African country to its first elections since independence from Belgian four decades ago.
The DRC war broke out in August 1998, and at its height drew in more than half a dozen African countries, including Uganda, which sent its troops to fight alongside rebels who were bidding to topple the government in Kinshasa.
The war has claimed the lives of an estimated 2.5 million people directly or indirectly through disease or starvation - Sapa-AFP.
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