KAMPALA, April 1 (Xinhua) -- Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has ruled out a blanket amnesty for the top rebel leader who led the 20 years insurgency in northern Uganda.

    "There must be reconciliation and accountability for the situation in northern Uganda but we shall not allow impunity in Uganda," the president said in a statement issued by the State House on Saturday.

    Joseph Kony, the fugitive leader of the Lord's Resistance Army has been evicted by the Uganda's national army to the neighboring southern Sudan before he crossed the border to join his deputy in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).

    Museveni was meeting the visiting UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, Jan Egeland, who called on the president at his hometown in Rawakitura, Kiruhura district Friday.

    He discussed with his guests on a regional proposal to stamp out the remnants of Kony in northern Uganda and the possibility of capturing those hiding out in the DRC as well as the resettlement and rehabilitation program in the region.

    But Museveni rejected the proposal for a UN Special Envoy for northern Uganda, noting that he and his ministers are there as far as canvassing for humanitarian aid for the region is concerned.

    Kony-led insurgency has resulted in the killing of tens of thousands of people in the north, leaving 1.4 million homeless.

    On behalf of the UN delegation, Egeland assured the Ugandan government of its total support for the northern resettlement program that has begun.

    Egeland is undertaking a nine-day mission to East Africa from March 30 to April 7, during which he is expected to visit Uganda, Sudan, Chad and Kenya. Enditem