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"The spokesman of the government of the DRC, Lambert Mende, announced Thursday, September 10 resumption of cooperation in the coming days with the UN Mission in the DRC (MONUSCO), in the operation against the Democratic Forces Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR), a Rwandan rebel movement.
"We are already in talks with officials of MONUSCO for a certain time for a cooperation on land recovery," he said during a press conference in Kinshasa.
He said the willingness of the DRC authorities to temporarily cease cooperation with MONUSCO has never in the idea of the evil that it is.
"The only motivation that pushed us to stop our collaboration was that protect the image of our military forces, any baseless denunciation are unacceptable," the minister jousted Mende.
The FDLR guerrillas have stepped up attacks against security forces and the civilian population during the last week in the province of North Kivu.
MONUSCO is seeking an early resumption of collaboration between MONUSCO forces and the Armed Forces of the DRC (FARDC) for total eradication of the FDLR rebels.
"We call for the rapid resumption of collaboration between our two institutions as part of a strategic dialogue, because together we are stronger", said Charles Bambara, UN Public Information Director in DRC. Relations between the government and the UN mission in the DRC through a turbulence zone. The revelation of Martin Köbler, during the weekly press briefing of the Monusco.Les relations between the government and the UN mission in the DRC through a turbulence zone. The revelation of Martin Köbler, during the weekly press briefing of MONUSCO. The head of MONUSCO admits: "Relations between MONUSCO and the government, but also the President of the Republic, this is a difficult moment is tense." The history information that relations between the UN and the government are marked by ups and downs.
As in a cycle, tension moments alternate with periods of calm. In most cases, both parties play to hypocrisy to the point that it poses a real question of trust between them. From time to time they are held by the throat, showing that they hate, sometimes they feel that they should walk together and support each other.
Illustrations abound. As for diplomatic sources, Agence France Presse reports that "failure is total" between the peacekeepers and the Congolese Army. The bone of contention between the two partners covers the designation by the Congolese authorities of two generals, listed by MONUSCO as infréquentables are determined to be criminal activities on civilians. And yet, the two generals received mission of supreme commander to lead the hunt for Rwandan rebels of the FDLR. The offensive is led by the FARDC alone, without the help of the peacekeepers, who asked conditionalities "unacceptable for a sovereign government." In response, the President decided "to renounce all support of MONUSCO in the hunt for FDLR operations".
Peacekeepers are missing from the offensive against the Rwandan Hutu rebels of the FDLR announced in January by the Congolese army and entered in a truly operational phase in late February in the provinces of North and South Kivu. Already more than 150 FDLR are "neutralized" by the FARDC since the beginning of the operation.
However, Martin Köbler maintains that cooperation between the FARDC and MONUSCO is ongoing. For his part, Lambert Mende said the same thing, insisting that the waiver applies only to operations against the FDLR. Moreover, against "ADF is a real cooperation, this has not changed until now," says Mr Köbler. It illustrates his point: "Our troops live together, eat together, fight together in the bush with the FARDC (Armed Forces of the DRC, editor's note), we participate in the intervention brigade". "False" retorts a general officer on condition of anonymity, trusting AFP: "On the front of ADF we conduct our operations with our own means." In diplomatic circles in Kinshasa, it is claimed that the order to break would come from the Congolese authorities who gave clear instructions enforced by men on the ground.
Leave, not leave
The Security Council will certainly ask this question before deciding on the merits of departure or not of MONUSCO. The reasons that led the UN body to create Monuc they still exist? Is that the negative forces have lost their capacity for harm? ".
"We are already in talks with officials of MONUSCO for a certain time for a cooperation on land recovery," he said during a press conference in Kinshasa.
He said the willingness of the DRC authorities to temporarily cease cooperation with MONUSCO has never in the idea of the evil that it is.
"The only motivation that pushed us to stop our collaboration was that protect the image of our military forces, any baseless denunciation are unacceptable," the minister jousted Mende.
The FDLR guerrillas have stepped up attacks against security forces and the civilian population during the last week in the province of North Kivu.
MONUSCO is seeking an early resumption of collaboration between MONUSCO forces and the Armed Forces of the DRC (FARDC) for total eradication of the FDLR rebels.
"We call for the rapid resumption of collaboration between our two institutions as part of a strategic dialogue, because together we are stronger", said Charles Bambara, UN Public Information Director in DRC. Relations between the government and the UN mission in the DRC through a turbulence zone. The revelation of Martin Köbler, during the weekly press briefing of the Monusco.Les relations between the government and the UN mission in the DRC through a turbulence zone. The revelation of Martin Köbler, during the weekly press briefing of MONUSCO. The head of MONUSCO admits: "Relations between MONUSCO and the government, but also the President of the Republic, this is a difficult moment is tense." The history information that relations between the UN and the government are marked by ups and downs.
As in a cycle, tension moments alternate with periods of calm. In most cases, both parties play to hypocrisy to the point that it poses a real question of trust between them. From time to time they are held by the throat, showing that they hate, sometimes they feel that they should walk together and support each other.
Illustrations abound. As for diplomatic sources, Agence France Presse reports that "failure is total" between the peacekeepers and the Congolese Army. The bone of contention between the two partners covers the designation by the Congolese authorities of two generals, listed by MONUSCO as infréquentables are determined to be criminal activities on civilians. And yet, the two generals received mission of supreme commander to lead the hunt for Rwandan rebels of the FDLR. The offensive is led by the FARDC alone, without the help of the peacekeepers, who asked conditionalities "unacceptable for a sovereign government." In response, the President decided "to renounce all support of MONUSCO in the hunt for FDLR operations".
Peacekeepers are missing from the offensive against the Rwandan Hutu rebels of the FDLR announced in January by the Congolese army and entered in a truly operational phase in late February in the provinces of North and South Kivu. Already more than 150 FDLR are "neutralized" by the FARDC since the beginning of the operation.
However, Martin Köbler maintains that cooperation between the FARDC and MONUSCO is ongoing. For his part, Lambert Mende said the same thing, insisting that the waiver applies only to operations against the FDLR. Moreover, against "ADF is a real cooperation, this has not changed until now," says Mr Köbler. It illustrates his point: "Our troops live together, eat together, fight together in the bush with the FARDC (Armed Forces of the DRC, editor's note), we participate in the intervention brigade". "False" retorts a general officer on condition of anonymity, trusting AFP: "On the front of ADF we conduct our operations with our own means." In diplomatic circles in Kinshasa, it is claimed that the order to break would come from the Congolese authorities who gave clear instructions enforced by men on the ground.
Leave, not leave
The Security Council will certainly ask this question before deciding on the merits of departure or not of MONUSCO. The reasons that led the UN body to create Monuc they still exist? Is that the negative forces have lost their capacity for harm? ".
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