Former President Uhuru Kenyatta is hopeful the Nairobi III peace dialogue will help deliver a lasting solution to the Eastern DRC fights.
This, Uhuru stated, will happen only if the various parties from the country involved in the talks commit to the process of restoring peace.
The ongoing meeting which began on November 28 ends Saturday.
President William Ruto and his Burundian counterpart Evariste Ndayisimiye attended the opening and gave their remarks.
"Help me find peace, do not make my work difficult, I am ready to listen to your views and have ideas on how we can address this situation once and for all," said Uhuru in his address Wednesday.
Those participating in the Nairobi dialogue are members of the M23 groups that he (Uhuru) said have agreed to drop their guns down.
Others are community leaders, civil rights and religious groups from the Central African nation.
An optimistic EAC peace facilitator said, "by the end of the meeting we are going to announce to you, the people of DRC and the World at large a solution that everyone will be about".
Expressing his commitment to the process, Uhuru noted he has been assured of full support by the Congolese government led by its President Felix Tshisekedi.
Prof Serge Tshibangu, the special envoy and advisor who represented Tshisekedi, was present.
Uhuru reiterated that his role in the dialogues was purely a political consultation and that they are not going to interfere with the sovereignty of Congo.
"Ni nyinyi watu wa DRC mtakaoamua vile mnataka kuendesha nchi yenu, yetu tu ni kutafuta suluhisho la amani la kudumu," he stated.
Uhuru further emphasised the need for a cease-fire among the rebel groups saying several international partners are ready to help in rebuilding the war-ravaged part of the country.
"I have received several offers from foreign countries that are ready to work with you and the government in rebuilding Eastern Congo but this will only materialize if we silence guns," Uhuru told the participants.
Civil war, he noted, was the least that can happen in Africa arguing there were life-threatening challenges such as poverty, diseases and ignorance that "we should be dealing with".
Among the conditions set before the rebels were allowed to the meeting, the facilitator said was to have them cease fire and return to their original locations.
Uhuru at the same time told the forces from neighbouring countries participating in the fights to return to their countries.
"If they will not heed the call they will be dealt with by the Congolese army and that of EAC," he said.
