UN
United Nations Peacekeeping
3 Mar
2009
MONUC stresses that the Ituri Disarmament Process, due to end on 1st April, will not be extended
Press Release
* Original in French
MONUC / PIO / PR /10 /2005
Kinshasa, D.R. Congo, 31 March 2005: MONUC stresses that, contrary to wrong interpretations published this morning by some newspapers in Kinshasa, it will not extend its deadline for the disarmament of the Ituri militiamen.
* Original in French
MONUC / PIO / PR /10 /2005
Kinshasa, D.R. Congo, 31 March 2005: MONUC stresses that, contrary to wrong interpretations published this morning by some newspapers in Kinshasa, it will not extend its deadline for the disarmament of the Ituri militiamen.
Militiamen and chiefs of armed groups must disarm no later than tomorrow, Friday, April 1, 2005, otherwise they will have to face the consequences of their refusal to do so.
The UN Mission said yesterday that, whatever the reason, the1st April deadline is not negotiable and will not be extended. MONUC, through its Director of Public Information, Mr. Kemal Saki, made it clear yesterday during the Mission's weekly press briefing that «the option for integrating the Ituri-specific Disarmament and Community Reintegration Programme (DRC) will end on Friday, 1st April 2005. After this date, it will be too late to join the process and benefit from it. Those who would have refused to lay down their weapons by 1st April must be prepared to face the consequences of their refusal».
MONUC will consider those who would not have respected the deadline as outlaws. MONUC's Chief of Staff, General Jean-François Collot d'Escury, stated cleary that: «Outlaws will be regarded as bandits. We will show no qualms about those who would have deliberately chosen to act as outlaws.»
The speculations published today by the local press on a possible extension of the DRC process are baseless and unfounded.
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Contacts:
- Kemal SAIKI, Director of Public Information ' email: saiki@un.org ' tel: +243 81 890 7506
- Mamadou BAH, Spokesman ' email: bahm@un.org ' tel: +243 81 890 7706
The UN Mission said yesterday that, whatever the reason, the1st April deadline is not negotiable and will not be extended. MONUC, through its Director of Public Information, Mr. Kemal Saki, made it clear yesterday during the Mission's weekly press briefing that «the option for integrating the Ituri-specific Disarmament and Community Reintegration Programme (DRC) will end on Friday, 1st April 2005. After this date, it will be too late to join the process and benefit from it. Those who would have refused to lay down their weapons by 1st April must be prepared to face the consequences of their refusal».
MONUC will consider those who would not have respected the deadline as outlaws. MONUC's Chief of Staff, General Jean-François Collot d'Escury, stated cleary that: «Outlaws will be regarded as bandits. We will show no qualms about those who would have deliberately chosen to act as outlaws.»
The speculations published today by the local press on a possible extension of the DRC process are baseless and unfounded.
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Contacts:
- Kemal SAIKI, Director of Public Information ' email: saiki@un.org ' tel: +243 81 890 7506
- Mamadou BAH, Spokesman ' email: bahm@un.org ' tel: +243 81 890 7706
