But the defence minister says the government will not negotiate until the rebels lay down their arms, which they are doubtless too nervous to do.
He has also offered a partial amnesty to rebels who lay down their weapons.
Macedonian President Boris Trajkovski has proposed a partial amnesty to persuade the rebels to lay down their arms.
From there, the rebels could float down the river to Kinshasa.
The new coalition's prime minister, Bashkim Fino, who hails from the opposition Socialists, has toyed with the idea of going to Gjirokaster, where he used to be mayor, to ask the rebels to lay down their weapons and back the government of national reconciliation.
Rebels no longer shut down the country's electricity grid or disrupt the flow of oil.
Gen Dempsey also said it appeared that rebels had recently shot down a Syrian warplane, despite Damascus insisting that it had suffered a technical fault.
Earlier this month the Rwandan government denied sending its own troops to help track down these rebels, but the two governments admit to facing a common enemy.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who along with the Congress party chief Sonia Gandhi visited the wounded in the hospital a day after the attack, said India would "never bow down" before the rebels.
As well as dealing with the mentally-unstable John Stonehouse - who disappears, reappears and then resigns - there are serial rebels who threaten to bring the government down.
Correspondents say Mr Younes was not trusted by all the rebels because of his previous role in cracking down on dissidents.
And in June, Congress passed the legal framework for eventual peace talks that would set out the kind of sentences rebels could expect if they agreed to lay down their arms.
Sudan's government says they bombed towns in Darfur to put down a regional uprising by the African rebels.
Both the US and France, the former colonial power, turned down government pleas for help against the rebels.
The rebels' traditional backers, Iran and Syria, are bogged down in their own troubles.
The UN move comes as former rebels in Ivory Coast said on Friday they would not lay down their arms as previously announced.
The Ivory Coast Government says it will not negotiate with the rebels - who control half of the country - until they lay down their arms.
Many argue that since Turkey is bogged down in a 28-year-old war against rebels of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), it cannot afford military adventures elsewhere.
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While many countries -- including the United States, France and Britain -- have called for al-Assad to step down, they have not agreed on whether to arm Syrian rebels.
Though violence in Darfur has come down from its peak, there are still clashes between government forces, rebels, bandits and rival ethnic groups.
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Two months later, Mr Kabila and the rebels are supposed to have integrated their forces into a new Congolese army and be sitting down together to discuss a new democratic system for Congo.
But our East Africa correspondent says the rebels' brutal tactic of kidnapping children is a clear signal that they have no intention of laying down their arms.
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