Democratic Republic of Congo's latest national conference has heard a call for a new push to settle the maritime border dispute with Angola and enable the country to take a potential share of the region's offshore oil. The 'Concertations Nationalés' held from 7th September to 5th October in Kinshasa, gathered MPs, Senators and Civil Society organisations to discuss the country's political and economic future. Kinshasa University geologist Professor Ezequiel Kasongo Numbi Kashemukunda, a former MP of President Joseph Kabila's Alliance de la Majorité Présidentielle and former diplomat, called the government to stop wasting time and energy in trying to secure the recognition of its claims over the continental shelf beyond the 200 nautical mile limit.
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