MONUC Press Review - 23 October 2007

11 Mar 2009

MONUC Press Review - 23 October 2007

This Tuesday 23 October 2007, the Kinshasa press devotes its principal columns to the visit of president Kabila in the United States.
It is on Friday 26 October that the head of the Congolese State will be received by president George Bush in Washington.

Their interview, believes Le Potentiel, "will relate to bilateral cooperation, the success of the new government resulting from the elections, the remaining challenges to achieve a united, sure and prosperous Congo."

"Until the United States comes to a clear conclusion about the reorganisation of the Army, the security services and the means needed to equip the FARDC as a dissuasive force, in the broad and concrete sense of the term," Le Potentiel adds before indicating that "Kabila will not fail to require of Washington to exert more pressure on Nkunda and Kagame."

"The United States is very much implicated in finding a solution to the current crisis in eastern DRC," informs Le Phare.

Meanwhile, United Nations Day will be celebrated tomorrow.

The United Nations mission estimates Le Potentiel, "the nature of its peacekeeping mission varies from one country to another, according to whether one is southern hemisphere or northen hemisphere... Or that one is rich and in need of competitive mineral resources or oil for the worldwide market, or poor."

This is why, "... the fate of the Congolese population does not interest anybody," estimates Le Potentiel, explaining why for this reason "no international authority has yet come to a conclusion about the 'genocide or holocaust' in the DRC."

With this truth Le Potentiel continues, "... one shouts about humanitarian catastrophes... but one lets the lords of war continue," Le Potentiel says.

Much more, "they are protected even so that tomorrow, they will become leaders of the UN member states," adds Le Potentiel.

"If the UN did not exist, it would have been more difficult to manage many armed conflicts throughout the world... and thanks to its many missions of peace, it avoids the worst in many cases, except for some failures," specifies Le Potentiel.

At all events, in the DRC, "the UN troops were already proven," L'Avenir estimates.

Indeed "MONUC will have been an important eye in the Congo events, even if the population which threw stones at its vehicles would have liked to see that it engages differently," writes L'Avenir.

However William Swing "made more than the UN mission expected of him... thanks to his knowledge of Congo and the Congolese which enabled him to exceed the attitudes that the texts of the UN and the divergent interests of world leaders conferred on him," estimates L'Avenir.

This is why, "the Congolese people will remain forever grateful to him," L'Avenir concludes.