Eleven foreign ministers of countries in Africa's Great Lakes region met last Thursday in Kigali, Rwanda, to map out strategies of implementing a regional pact on security, stability and development signed in November 2004 in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. The ministers, meeting under an initiative of the UN and the African Union (AU), reviewed – among other things - efforts to improve peace and security in the region, including proliferation and circulation of small arms and light weapons, border security, disarmament of combatants and defence and security cooperation among countries in the region.