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Gata Mavita Wa Lufuta

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first: 2012-09-19
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“The workshop brought together people from the FARDC, the national police and civil society from all of the provinces of the country. A joint technical working group has been set up in areas affected by armed conflict, namely, North Kivu, South Kivu and Orientale provinces. In addition, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, as the report of the Secretary-General highlights, continues to carry out the United Nations Children, Not Soldiers campaign, launched by the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict and UNICEF. My country has also taken the initiative of implementing the objectives of the campaign as they are defined in resolution 2143 (2014). Undeniable progress has been made in my country's fight against the recruitment and use of children within the army and intelligence services.”
2016-08-02 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7753 (2016) · source
“In addition, we have created two coordination bodies to monitor the implementation of the action plan. With respect to the fight against impunity, high- ranking officers of the army and police who have been found guilty of violations against children's rights have been sentenced. We have opened new courts whose mandate is to punish serious crimes committed against children, and the Government has taken a decision not to allow any person found guilty of six or more serious violations of children's rights in time of conflict to remain in the army. With the financial support of UNICEF and working in partnership with MONUSCO, the Department of National Defence held a workshop in Kinshasa from 24 to 25 August 2015 to draft a road map of priorities to fight the recruitment of children in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.”
2016-08-02 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7753 (2016) · source
“This directive empowers the military hiearchy to punish with disciplinary action and to bring to justice any soldier under their command who is guilty of committing serious violations of children's rights. The directive also requires that awareness campaigns and training be held in all military garrisons of the country in order to allow all military personnel to become familiar with the action plan and the obligations flowing therefrom. Under the second directive, which applies to the intelligence services, members of the United Nations response team and child protection agencies are permitted to work unhindered by and with transparency from the intelligence services. This directive also authorizes the release of any child linked to armed groups and his or her transfer to a child-protection agency.”
2016-08-02 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7753 (2016) · source
“An action plan has been signed with the United Nations comprising a series of commitments to put an end to the recruitment and use of children by the army and to sexual violence against children. Every six months the situation is assessed, in collaboration with various partners, to take stock of the progress achieved. Two important directives have been signed by the Minister of National Defence and the Deputy Head of the National Intelligence Agency. The first is for the armed forces and instructs the commanders of military training centres to facilitate access to military barracks by the United Nations child protection country teams, as well as by child protection agencies for verification purposes.”
2016-08-02 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7753 (2016) · source
“Having provided these explanations, I would like to say that the issue of child soldiers is of concern to my Government, which, under the leadership of the Head of State, has decided to ban the recruitment and use of children in our armed forces and our security services. To translate this political resolve into action, the Head of State has set up a structure to combat sexual violence and the recruitment and use of children. The senior State official responsible for managing this structure works closely with authorities in the military, judiciary and the Ministry for Gender, Women and Children. Among the actions taken by the Government in the context of this struggle I can cite the following. There is an operation to identify military staff by setting up a biometric database to manage soldiers' personal data, especially their age.”
2016-08-02 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7753 (2016) · source
“Finally, the use of schools for military purposes is mentioned in paragraph 50 of the report. This practice is not tolerated within the FARDC, especially since a directive of the Ministry of Defence has prohibited it for several years. It should be noted that the troops in all units of our army now receive training in international humanitarian law. Moreover, since the Government and the United Nations signed the action plan, awareness-raising campaigns have been conducted and the contents of the plan are on the curriculum of all the military academies in our country. In order to demonstrate our determination never to use schools for military purposes, my country endorsed the Oslo Safe Schools Declaration.”
2016-08-02 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7753 (2016) · source
“After they had been identified and there had been an exchange about them with the International Committee of the Red Cross, they were immediately handed over to UNICEF Goma. It should be noted that five of these children, at a much earlier date, had been declared adults by child protection agencies in Goma. The case of the 29 children allegedly killed or maimed by the FARDC and 9 by the police is noted in paragraph 47 of the report. MONUSCO did not bring this case to the attention of the joint technical working group, which is the appropriate context to exchange information and to harmonize the views of each party. The FARDC and the Congolese national police do not acknowledge these facts, unless they happened without their knowledge during the fighting against the armed groups.”
2016-08-02 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7753 (2016) · source
“The situation of the 10 children found in the Forces armees de la Republique democratique du Congo (FARDC), as mentioned in paragraph 46 of the report, had been the subject of an investigation ordered by the National Ministry ofDefence to the Chief of Staff of our army, who in turn issued the order to the Commander of the 32nd Military Region. The latter, after verifying the facts, brought Colonels Ramazani and Kamulete, the alleged perpetrators, to justice. With regard to the situation of the 22 children found in the Angenga prison, they were captured by the FARDC during military operations against the Forces democratiques de liberation du Rwanda, to which they belonged.”
2016-08-02 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7753 (2016) · source
“Going back to the statistics to which we alluded, we would like to draw the Council's attention to the fact that, as the joint technical working group has stated every time, these statistics are problematic to the extent that the statistics presented by MONUSCO are not necessarily in line with those of UNICEF and of the European Union's national programme for disarmament, demobilization, reintegration (DDR), which are all evolving structures within the technical working group. During the discussions in the technical working group, these structures have always insisted that only the statistics validated by the European Union's national DDR programme should be taken into account. In this context, it seems useful to inform the Council briefly on the following points.”
2016-08-02 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7753 (2016) · source
“Before I proceed, I would like to make some comments on the part of the report (S/2016/360) presented to the Council that concerns my country. The report provides some statistics on the situation of child soldiers in my country. It is important to remind the Council, as we have always stressed, that today there are no longer child soldiers in the Congolese national army. The children that our army hands over to the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO) come from armed groups.”
2016-08-02 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7753 (2016) · source
“Mr. Gata Mavita wa Lufuta (Democratic Republic of the Congo) (spoke in French): At the outset, I would like to congratulate you, Madam President, on Malaysia's assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for the month of August and to thank Malaysia for taking the initiative to organize this debate on the plight of children in armed conflict. I would like to commend Ms. Leila Zerrougui, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict, and tell her how much we value her commitment and dedication to children's causes throughout the world. Finally, I extend my thanks to His Excellency Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, UNICEF Executive Director Anthony Lake and all those who took the floor before me for their very enlightening statements.”
2016-08-02 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7753 (2016) · source
“Said Djinnit, Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for the Great Lakes Region of Africa, for their commitment and their dedication to the cause of my country and the Great Lakes region. My Government also thanks the States that have contributed troops, in particular those that are part of the Intervention Brigade. Once again, on behalf of my country, I thank all members of the Security Council.”
2016-07-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7732 (2016) · source
“Lastly, my delegation welcomes the resumption of cooperation between the Forces armees de la Republique democratique du Congo and the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in the context of the fight against the negative forces and armed groups. We hope that this cooperation will enable us to quickly put an end to the Forces Democratiques de Liberation du Rwanda in order to focus all efforts on the Allied Democratic Forces with a view to making the region of Beni and the few communities that still suffer from the presence of armed groups completely safe. I cannot conclude without expressing the gratitude of my Government to Mr. Maman Sambo Sidikou, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Mr.”
2016-07-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7732 (2016) · source
“My country has never deviated from this principle. Belonging to the opposition or to the majority, or any other body in the country, does not exonerate someone who breaks the law. For a country like ours, whose people have suffered greatly on account of the impunity of those who enjoy privileges because of their status or social standing, being complacent in this area does not help to strengthen democracy. My delegation welcomes the progress made under the disarmament, demobilization, reintegration and repatriation or resettlement programme. Nevertheless, we remind the Council that the process has so far benefited from only the support of our Government. It would be desirable if the partners who promised to contribute to it were to do so in order to enable the continuation of operations with a view to their completion.”
2016-07-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7732 (2016) · source
“My delegation draws the Council's attention to the fact that the criticisms levelled against my country often are not justified, because, as everyone knows, in any State governed by the rule of law, the primacy of the law and the equality of all people before it are essentially the rule. Public freedoms must be exercised according to the law and while respecting the requirements of public order. The State is a guarantor of the freedoms and rights of all and has the duty to ensure that this is so. The enjoyment of one's rights and freedoms is not something that can be used to justify defiance of the protective legal arsenal of the rights and safety of all with impunity. Hence, when necessary, as with the rule of law anywhere, courts and tribunals can intervene to punish offenses when they are committed.”
2016-07-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7732 (2016) · source
“We therefore wonder if the campaign behind all of that, which offers no objective information on the subject, has not been created for the purpose of gratuitously discrediting our institutions. Nevertheless, the truth is that in the Democratic Republic ofthe Congo the political space is more open than anywhere else in the region, as visitors to our country and those who live there can confirm. In fact, we have more than 400 political parties in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and hundreds of private radio stations and television channels, which freely set their editorial opinion. Many of them belong to opposition political actors. Moreover, those radio and television stations often spend most of their time criticizing public institutions and even the Head of State, and they do so openly and without hindrance.”
2016-07-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7732 (2016) · source
“However, as we have already indicated, the inclusive national political dialogue that we are all calling for must first and foremost be a Congolese undertaking, who must learn to talk to each other as happens everywhere else. As for the partners and friends of my country, their role is to help us in conducting a successful dialogue that leads to consensus among our country's entire political class. My delegation thinks it is useful here to return to the point made about diminishing political space. It seems to us that none of the explanations that we have provided to date on the issue have led to any effort to correct the false perception associated with the matter in the context of international opinion.”
2016-07-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7732 (2016) · source
“In order to allow the Congolese people time to become familiar with the process, the Commission has begun an awareness- raising campaign starting in Bas-Uele province. Moreover, as we have always emphasized, in order to ensure peaceful elections, overcome obstacles in the way of the process and prevent any post-election crisis, it is necessary or organize an inclusive national political dialogue. In View of the time needed and for the sake of saving time, in his address to the nation on 30 June the Head of State called on the Facilitator to make haste in order to start the work this month. My Government thanks the African Union, the European Union, the International Organization of la Francophonie and the United Nations, which are supporting the dialogue and have underscored its importance.”
2016-07-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7732 (2016) · source
“Just two weeks ago, in Kalemie in Tanganyika province and in Kindu in Maniema province, he reassured the Congolese people that elections would take place in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and called on them to register on a large scale as soon as the registration process began. Similarly, the National Independent Electoral Commission, the technical body constitutionally empowered to organize elections in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, has started testing registration kits in Kinshasa and Matadi in Kongo Central province with a view to updating and ensuring the reliability of the electoral registry. Given the positive results, the Commission launched the registration process in July, starting in Nord-Ubangi province.”
2016-07-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7732 (2016) · source
“The reasons for that have been sufficiently discussed in our various interventions before the Council, as well as by my country's Foreign Minister and by me. It therefore seems to me untimely to revisit them here. But what is important and deserves the Council's attention is that, as we have always said, our country is determined to organize free elections that respect all international standards of inclusiveness, transparency and credibility, in a calm atmosphere, in order to safeguard the hard-won peace. My country's determination was reaffirmed by the President of the Republic, His Excellency Mr. Joseph Kabila Kabange.”
2016-07-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7732 (2016) · source
“My delegation has taken note of the report (8/2016/579) of the Secretary-General on the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO) and duly appreciates its value. Although the Council takes note of the responses my Government has always provided on many of the issues raised in his reports, in order to further our understanding, my delegation believes it is necessary to briefly reconsider them. In that regard, please allow me in particular to focus on the state of progress in the electoral process, which is the main issue to which the other issues are linked, notably the political dialogue and what the report refers to as diminishing political space. It is true that there have been delays in the electoral process.”
2016-07-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7732 (2016) · source
“Mr. Gata MaVita wa Lufuta (Democratic Republic of the Congo) (spoke in French): At the outset, Mr. President, I would like to congratulate your country, Japan, on its assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for the month of July and to express my delegation's delight at seeing you conduct the Council's deliberations. Allow me also to express my delegation's gratitude to Mr. Francois Delattre, Permanent Representative of the French Republic to the United Nations, for the skill with which he presided over the Council's proceedings in June. Lastly, I would like to pay well-deserved tribute to His Excellency Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon for his outstanding ongoing efforts to restore peace in my country, the Democratic Republic of the Congo.”
2016-07-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7732 (2016) · source
“We believe that, in so doing, the United Nations will further strengthen the climate of cooperation that it has long enjoyed with my country. The meeting rose at 10.15 a.m.”
2016-06-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7724 (2016) · source
“As we indicated in March, my country, which is already suffering from a broad spectrum of crimes committed by armed groups and negative forces against its people, cannot agree to become once again the bastion of a new foreign armed group. My delegation therefore deplores the Council's passivity in this respect. In conclusion, my delegation considers it important for the Council to treat my Government as a partner and, as such, to listen to it so as to assist it in achieving what it considers to be appropriate and right for the good of its country. That is the kind of respect that partners owe one another. In other words, to the extent possible the Council must avoid imposing its views at every opportunity.”
2016-06-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7724 (2016) · source
“In this regard, the situation of Burundian refugees who have received military training in a neighbouring country and have infiltrated the Democratic Republic of the Congo with forged Congolese voter cards, to which the Group of Experts refers in its report (8/2016466), is both a serious attack on the security of the States of the region concerned by this situation and a violation of the Peace, Security and Cooperation Framework for the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Region. This situation deserves the attention of the Council, which must condemn it. The Council's failure to condemn such acts, recognized even by its own Group of Experts, and its resort to a vague formulation calling on the countries of the region to refrain from activities capable of destabilizing neighbouring countries, are unacceptable.”
2016-06-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7724 (2016) · source
“The experience of the previous two elections requires us to establish the conditions necessary to organizing proper elections that are not marred by violence. We are convinced that the efforts of my Government, the United Nations and the international community will allow us to overcome the obstacles we face in organizing proper elections as soon as possible. My delegation also finds it useful to note here that resolution 2293 (2016), which concerns the sanctions regime, primarily addresses security issues.”
2016-06-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7724 (2016) · source
“At the end of his term, the President stays in office until the President-Elect effectively assumes his functions." After analysing this provision, the Court issued its opinion that at the end of his mandate, the President of the Republic holds office until the effective installation of the President-Elect. This interpretation removes any ambiguity and dispels any misunderstanding among all those who had claimed that there would be a vacancy in the presidency of the Republic in the Democratic Republic of the Congo if the presidential election were not held by the end of this year. My delegation wishes to emphasize that our insistence on the importance that my country attaches to the organization of peaceful elections in order to safeguard peace and stability should not be interpreted as an excuse to delay the elections.”
2016-06-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7724 (2016) · source
“As the presidential elections and respect for the constitutional timetable for their organization are issues ofconcern to the Council, it is necessary to clarify that on 18 April the political parties ofthe presidential majority, torn between various interpretations of article 70 of our Constitution, turned to the Constitutional Court, which is vested with the power to interpret legal texts in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, to seek the correct interpretation of the article, which reads as follows: "The President of the Republic is elected by direct universal suffrage for a term of five years which is renewable only once.”
2016-06-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7724 (2016) · source
“In this context, Council members may not be aware of the tensions that diverse interpretations of the provisions of resolution 2277 (2016) have created in my country, to the point where a handful of politicians, clinging to those provisions, have called into question the convening of the political dialogue that we have all sought to help organize peaceful elections in my country and thereby to prevent the recurrence of the violence that marred the 2006 and 2011 elections. That is why my delegation had hoped that today's resolution, which has no connection to the elections, would not refer to that issue. Because our opinion has not been taken into account and the resolution does touch on this issue, my delegation should like to say a word in that regard.”
2016-06-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7724 (2016) · source
“My delegation therefore feels duty-bound to draw the Council's attention to the fact that it is the United Nations organ responsible for maintaining international peace and security. It therefore bears the heavy responsibility of working for peace and preventing the outbreak ofall conflicts. Thus, any discourse emanating from this organ that does not promote trust or that exacerbates tensions can have serious consequences for Member States on the ground.”
2016-06-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7724 (2016) · source
“Allow my delegation, however, to comment briefly here on some points related to the resolution to which my country attaches importance, as stressed in the note verbale addressed to you, Sir, on 20 June. My delegation does not share the views of the Council, which has seen fit to model the resolution on the provisions of resolution 2277 (2016), adopted by the Council in March. My delegation believes that, given their different contexts as reflected in their subject matter, the contents of these two resolutions should also be different. By renewing certain provisions of resolution 2277 (2016), resolution 2293 (2016) risks rekindling latent tensions in my country.”
2016-06-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7724 (2016) · source
“I take this opportunity to convey once again to Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and to all members of the Security Council the full gratitude of the people and the Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo for their work and the efforts of the United Nations to safeguard the sovereignty and territorial integrity of my country and to guarantee peace and stability there. My delegation takes note of resolution 2293 (2016), which has just been adopted by the Council. We thank the Council for this act, which reflects once again its desire to see peace in my country further strengthened. We also thank the Council for clearly expressing in the resolution that the arms embargo does not apply to my Government.”
2016-06-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7724 (2016) · source
“Mr. Gata Mavita wa Lufuta (Democratic Republic of the Congo) (spoke in French): As your presidency of the Council is nearing its end, allow me to express the gratitude of my delegation for the skill with which you, Mr. President, have steered the Council's work during the month of June and for the competence and expertise with which you have carried out your mission. I would also like to thank you, Mr. President, for giving me the opportunity to take the floor before the Council at this meeting devoted to the adoption of resolution 2293 (2016) on the sanctions regime for the Democratic Republic of the Congo.”
2016-06-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7724 (2016) · source
“On socioeconomic reintegration, with the collaboration of our national institute for professional training, training was organized at Kibumba last September in various economic sectors for survivors and demobilized fighters. That type of training will continue this year in Rutshuru in North Kivu and in Bunia and Aru in Ituri and will train 2,000 people. A $35,000 credit fund was set up to meet the financial needs of some women in Bunia. That progress has been made possible thanks to the Government's own resources, with the technical support of the international community, including assistance from Japan via Ms. Bangura's office, and the United Nations Population Fund and various other partners. In conclusion, my country is determined to continue its efforts to completely eradicate sexual violence.”
2016-06-02 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7704 (2016) · source
“Against that backdrop, the Government is committed to addressing the various problems, including deliveringjustice in the fight against impunity. In that connection, 111 cases were decided in 2015 by the military justice system, without regard for the rank ofthe accused. We have also established a compensation fund, while two Senate committees, on sexual violence and on political, administrative and judicial issues, are working on a bill proposed by the office of the personal representative of the Head of State. On preventing sexual violence, a regional campaign called "Breaking the Silence" will be launched by September.”
2016-06-02 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7704 (2016) · source
“Among other things, my Government attributes those results to the following elements: the appointment of a personal representative of the President of the Republic in charge of the fight against sexual violence and the recruitment of children; the adoption of a plan of action to combat sexual violence among the armed forces and the signing ofajoint communique on the issue between the Government and the United Nations; the adoption of a zero-tolerance policy; and the signing by the Minister of National Defence of a decree on the responsibility of the unit commanders of the Forces armees de la Republique democratique du Congo for combating sexual violence. All of those steps reflect the will of the Government to end this scourge and honour its international commitments.”
2016-06-02 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7704 (2016) · source
“The consequences of the situation psychologically, economically and in medical terms are enormous. This debate affords us an opportunity to once again touch on the efforts of my country's Government to combat this situation. The restoration of peace in the part of the country formerly occupied by rebel armed groups has brought major change. Enormous progress has been made both in the fight against sexual violence and at the level of responding to the needs of victims. In referring to my country, the report (S/2016/36l) of the Secretary-General attests to that in mentioning the appreciable 80 per cent decline in the number of cases of sexual violence in conflict areas.”
2016-06-02 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7704 (2016) · source
“Mr. Gata Mavita wa Lufuta (Democratic Republic of the Congo) (spoke in French): First of all, I would like to thank France for organizing this debate. I also commend Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and his Special Representative Zainab Bangura, as well as all those who spoke before me, for their very useful presentations. Sexual violence in conflict situations is a scourge from which my country, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, has long suffered. For more than a decade, my country has experienced especially bloody armed conflicts in the eastern part of its territory. Those conflicts, which have caused many human casualties, are at the source ofthe practice ofusing rape as a weapon of war. The lives of thousands of girls, women, boys and men have thus been disrupted.”
2016-06-02 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7704 (2016) · source
“The same applies when serious human rights violations and crimes against humanity are not prosecuted. My country believed it was necessary to bring those points to the Council's attention. The meeting rose at 3.30 pm.”
2016-05-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7694 (2016) · source
“An individual's rights and freedoms do not permit the individual to flout with impunity the legal system designed to protect the rights and safety of all. Accordingly, when necessary, as in any State governed by the rule of law, the courts intervene, acting with complete independence, to punish those who commit crimes. Membership in the political opposition, the political majority, civil society or the police or the military does not release a perpetrator from legal responsibility for committing a crime. For a country like ours, whose people have suffered greatly from the impunity of those who enjoy privileges derived from their social status or standing, softness in this area does not help to strengthen democracy, but rather serves to undermine it.”
2016-05-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7694 (2016) · source
“It has also been clearly shown that, unlike in other countries where if one opposes the Government one must leave the country, practically all political leaders in the Democratic Republic of the Congo live in the country and engage in political activity. They can come and go from the territory without any restrictions on their movements owing to their opinions. That having been said, as in any State governed by the rule of law, where the primacy of law and the equality of all before the law are fundamental principles, public freedoms are to be exercised in conformity with the law and the need to maintain public order. As guarantor of the freedoms and rights of all, the State is obligated to uphold these principles, consistent with the adage that holds that the rights of one end where the rights of others begin.”
2016-05-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7694 (2016) · source
“The political space in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is the most open in the entire region, and will remain so. That can be seen in the existence of approximately than 400 political parties as well as in the hundreds of private radio and television stations, which are allowed to freely determine their editorial positions, many of which reflect those of well-known political players who are members of the opposition. The media is constitutionally controlled by the High Audiovisual and Communication Council, which supports democracy and which includes representatives from the media in all their diversity.”
2016-05-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7694 (2016) · source
“Furthermore, my country is surprised by the double-standard positions that have been taken by some members of the Security Council. The world, which is listening to Council members and observing them as they conduct their deliberations in the Chamber, are surprised by the positions taken by some Council members with regard to some States while they indulge other States. That could jeopardize the credibility of the good decisions that the Council normally takes. With regard to human rights violations, as the Minister for Foreign Affairs of my country said to the Security Council, by making both the National Human Rights Commission and the human rights liaison entity operational, my country has resolutely indicated its firm and ongoing determination to protect the rights of all its citizens, even the foreigners living on its territory.”
2016-05-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7694 (2016) · source
“Allow me to refer to some of the statements made by some Member States of the Security Council in referring to the situation in my country and alleged that the Head of State intends to remain in office. First of all, in that regard, in numerous of our statements to the Security Council we have made it clear that the Head of State respects his country's Constitution and will not modify it as has been done elsewhere. With regard to the organization of elections, my country has also insisted here in the Chamber on many occasions that the elections will be held but that they must take place under proper conditions in order to maintain peace and security, which the Congolese people, who have suffered so greatly from wars, greatly value. Those who love the Democratic Republic of the Congo must understand that and help us to that end.”
2016-05-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7694 (2016) · source
“Mr. Gata Mavita wa Lufuta (Democratic Republic of the Congo) (spoke in French): At the outset, I would like to congratulate Egypt on taking the initiative of organizing this meeting. I would also like to congratulate the various speakers who spoke before me for their very valuable briefings. I welcome this opportunity afforded to me and I welcome the willingness and determination of the Security Council to establish strong cooperation and partnership between the United Nations and regional organizations in order to contribute to international peace and security. My country particularly welcomes this approach and the efforts made by the African Union, in particular because we know that the African continent has been for many years the most unstable continent and the most inclined to conflicts.”
2016-05-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7694 (2016) · source
“Regardless of all that, my Government will pursue, in accordance with its national and international commitments, the implementation of its various projects and all the multisectoral reforms it has undertaken over the past decade in the interests of its people. The meeting rose at10.25 am.”
2016-03-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7659 (2016) · source
“Nor can we understand the justification that the current workforce of MONUSCO must be maintained in order to address the various threats it faces, given the fact that after 17 years in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and with the financial and logistical resources available to it, MONUSCO could have achieved more results if outcomes were dependent on greater numbers. Yet its record is mixed. This means, and we should not hesitate to say, that the troubles plaguing MONUSCO are deep and deserve careful consideration. Moreover, my delegation also cannot understand how the Security Council could adopt a resolution that paints an outdated picture of developments and the progress achieved on the ground by our country.”
2016-03-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7659 (2016) · source
“My country, which already suffers crimes of all kinds committed by armed groups and negative forces against its people, cannot agree to become yet again the safe haven of a new foreign armed group. Concerning the gradual drawdown of MONUSCO, my Government also regrets that the Council has been unable to respond favourably to the legitimate request addressed to it by my country. My delegation has trouble accepting the Council's position on this issue, to the extent that it has not taken into account the figure of 1,700 men recommended by the Secretary-General. We believe that this position shows a lack of flexibility that may affect the mood of the work on the ground and sap the enthusiasm inspired by the new MONUSCO leadership.”
2016-03-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7659 (2016) · source
“It is with that concern in mind that my delegation cannot conceal its surprise that the Council has made no reference to the serious situation described in the latest report of the Group of Experts on the Democratic Republic of the Congo (S/2015/797). Indeed, according to the report, the Group of Experts established by resolution 1533 (2004) refers to Burundian refugees who had been recruited in a neighbouring country, given military training by that country, armed and infiltrated into the Democratic Republic of the Congo with Congolese voting cards to sow unrest in Burundi. My delegation cannot understand how the Council can remain silent on such a serious situation, which has been brought to its attention by its own experts.”
2016-03-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7659 (2016) · source
“The Security Council will agree that this objective can be achieved only with the cooperation of all countries of the region, especially those that are concerned with the situation in the eastern part my country. By combining our efforts, we can together make our region a haven of peace, as the Council has always hoped it would become. We recognize, however, that the failure of some countries of the region to honour their commitments under the Peace, Security and Cooperation Framework for the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Region constitutes a danger that could undermine those efforts.”
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