AFP - Rwanda on Saturday charged that a UN report accusing Kigali of supporting Congolese rebels was inaccurate and a "vendetta" aimed at distracting the region from ongoing peace efforts.
   
"What comes out when you read that report first of all is that it's full of inaccuracies," Rwandan Foreign Minister Rosemary Museminali told reporters.
   
"I think when you read that report you can see that it's cleary just a vendetta," she said, speaking after a regional conference on economic integration.
   
The report drafted by a panel of UN experts says the Rwandan authorities have been "complicit in the recruitment of soldiers, including children, have facilitated the supply of military equipment and have sent officers and units" from their national army to ethnic Tutsi rebels led by warlord Laurent NKunda in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
   
The report also cited "extensive collaboration" between Congolese government troops and Hutu rebels of the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR).
   
"Now my role here is not exonerating anybody or supporting anybody, but the question is why such a report when there is this kind of momentum?" Museminali said.
   
A delegation from Nkunda's National Congress for the Defence of the People (CNDP) and Kinshasa officials have been involved in UN-sponsored talks in Nairobi.
   
"My goverment is going to respond to this report, but what I want to really point out is that we believe that is another plan to distract us," Museminali said.