BUNGANA, eastern Congo (AP) — Fighting may resume soon in eastern Congo if President Joseph Kabila’s government does not negotiate with the M23 rebels, said the insurgents’ president, Bishop Jean-Marie Runiga, Saturday.

“We see that the Congolese army troops are moving, they are preparing a final assault against us. If the government does not come to the negotiating table we will have to defend ourselves,” said Runiga at a press conference in Bunagana, a town in the Democratic Republic of Congo at the border with Uganda that is controlled by the M23.