President Joseph Kabila has said ex-rebel leader Bosco Ntaganda, wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for war crimes, must be arrested.
But Gen Ntaganda must be tried in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the president says.
Mr Kabila had previously refused to call for the arrest of the man known locally as "The Terminator".
The ICC indicted him five years ago, for allegedly recruiting child soldiers during DR Congo's bloody five-year war.
'Judged in Goma'
President Kabila held emergency meetings with top army officials in the east of the country, following the defections earlier this month of hundreds of Congolese troops.
The soldiers, loyal to Gen Ntaganda, were integrated into the national army in 2009. However, people in and around the town of Goma, where the troops are based, blame them for persistent unrest - including looting and rape - since the formal end of the war in 2003.
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