MONUC Press Review - 15 October 2007

11 Mar 2009

MONUC Press Review - 15 October 2007

In the Kinshasa press, the main focus is on the visit of president Joseph Kabila to Goma.
On Sunday 14 October 2007 president Kabila arrived in Goma at the "head of a delegation in particular made up of the ministers of defense, interior and humanitarian associations as well as the chief of staff of the Congolese armed forces," informs L'Avenir.

Joseph Kabila arrives in North Kivu, points out Le Palmarès at the time "where the ultimatum launched to the insurrectionists to enter brassage expires today."

The latter "... refuse to disarm before discussions with the authorities and promise to counteract in the event of attack," informs L'Avenir.

Nevertheless "the end of the Nkunda adventure is not imminent," indicates L'Avenir believing that "this time MONUC remembered its role which is to accompany the first steps by the DRC in the significant post electoral phase ... threatened by the adventures of Nkunda."

MONUC even "required of all the dissenting troops to join brassage immediately," adds L'Avenir.

Elsewhere, there are "252 deputies who voted against the motion of distrust against the minister of state close the presidency of the republic, against 156 for and 11 abstentions," reports Le Palamrès.

It is thus appropriate, estimates Le Palmarès, that the minister of state "preserved his seat in government."

From now on, it is "out of reach because it cannot be the subject any more of a new motion of distrust on the same matter during the same parliamentary session," Le Phare underlines.

"The proceedings were held in transparency and serenity on Saturday," recalls Le Potentiel.

"The truth should not be hidden by the democratic game in the Palais de Peuple," estimates Le Potentiel.

This is why, "it is necessary to establish responsibility for one and all... by parliamentary, governmental or independent board of inquiry," concludes Le Potentiel.