Democratic Republic of Congo’s Foreign Minister Raymond Tshibanda says the country will sign a peace deal on Monday with the March 23 movement (M23) rebel group.

On November 5, the M23 said it would disarm and pursue political talks after its last hilltop strongholds were captured by the Congolese army forces in the villages of Tshanzu and Runyoni along the border with Uganda and Rwanda.

“It was decided one day after the M23 declaration renouncing the rebellion that the government would give them five days before the signing,” Reuters quoted Tshibanda as saying on Friday.

“Those five days end on Monday, so the signing is on Monday.”

The Congolese foreign minister further said the signing of the deal is important because “it in essence focuses on M23 going into barracks, disarming and demobilizing, and to resolve other problems that were discussed in talks we previously held,” referring to negotiations between Congo’s government and the M23 in the Ugandan capital Kampala.

According to Ofwono Opondo, a spokesman for the Ugandan government, the signing would take place in Kampala.

This is while Congolese authorities have said Kinshasa would ink a declaration including 11 clauses agreed during talks, rather than a peace agreement, since M23 has been militarily defeated and disbanded.

The M23 rebels defected from the Congolese Army in April 2012 in protest over alleged mistreatment in the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo (FARDC). They had previously been integrated into the Congolese army under a peace deal signed in 2009.

Since early May 2012, nearly 3 million people have fled their homes in the eastern Congo. About 2.5 million have resettled in Congo, but more than 460,000 have crossed into neighboring Rwanda and Uganda.

Congo has faced numerous problems over the past few decades, such as grinding poverty, crumbling infrastructure, and a war in the east of the country that has dragged on since 1998 and left over 5.5 million people dead.