UN
United Nations Peacekeeping
3 Mar
2009
MONUC steps up logistic support to the "Commission Electorale Independante"
(CEI, Independent Electroral Commission)
MONUC 'proceeds with sensitisation activities conjointly with the Independent Electoral Commission. Besides, it has stepped up logistic support to CEI,' Rachel Eklou-Assogbavi, MONUC spokesperson told the Mission's weekly press conference.
MONUC 'proceeds with sensitisation activities conjointly with the Independent Electoral Commission. Besides, it has stepped up logistic support to CEI,' Rachel Eklou-Assogbavi, MONUC spokesperson told the Mission's weekly press conference.
'In Eastern Province, where the voter identification and registration operations started on 25 July, MONUC already flew in 80% of the electoral kits to the various administrative capitals. In Ituri district, over 85% of the registration centres have been identified,' she further said, before indicating, 'Those still unidentified are situated in areas whose access is extremely difficult, whether by road or air.'
Ms. Rachel Eklou-Assogbavi highlighted, 'The UN Mission transported electoral kits to the Bas Congo province and participated in the identification of 669 registration centres including warehouses for the electoral kits in the South Kivu, and in Katanga, MONUC office based in Kalemie contributed to the identification of 91% of the registration centres by CEI.'
MONUC spokesperson further reported, 'In Kindu, MONUC and CEI briefed political parties on the ongoing preparations for voters' identification and registration operations.'
'This past week was marked by the launching of the voter identification and registration operation in Katanga and eastern Kasaï, and yesterday Tuesday, in the territory of Aru, in northern Ituri,' Ms Rachel Eklou-Assogbavi said. She added that 'the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General, Mr William Lacy Swing went to Ituri yesterday, to visit the registration centres in Aru with the aim of encouraging this territory's inhabitants to register. He expressed his appreciation for the courage of the inhabitants of Aru.'
Regarding military activities, MONUC's military spokesman, Lieutenant-Colonel Patrick Hubert, indicated that 'the situation was generally calm'. Lt-Col Hubert recalled that 'MONUC has mobilised two battalions of 60 troops backed by a helicopter in order to verify the attack on 6 August 2005 by Maï Maï elements apparently belonging to Jackson's group against the post of the 51st battalion of the FARDC at Ishasha.'
In Ituri, 'on 8 August, during a cordon and search operation, the Pakistani battalion of the Ituri Brigade discovered 175 detonators stockpiled in a house in Mongwalu. This same battalion along with the FARDC (Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo) proceeded to arrest a militiamen suspected of spying and recruiting militiamen,' the military spokesman also said.
'In Eastern Province, where the voter identification and registration operations started on 25 July, MONUC already flew in 80% of the electoral kits to the various administrative capitals. In Ituri district, over 85% of the registration centres have been identified,' she further said, before indicating, 'Those still unidentified are situated in areas whose access is extremely difficult, whether by road or air.'
Ms. Rachel Eklou-Assogbavi highlighted, 'The UN Mission transported electoral kits to the Bas Congo province and participated in the identification of 669 registration centres including warehouses for the electoral kits in the South Kivu, and in Katanga, MONUC office based in Kalemie contributed to the identification of 91% of the registration centres by CEI.'
MONUC spokesperson further reported, 'In Kindu, MONUC and CEI briefed political parties on the ongoing preparations for voters' identification and registration operations.'
'This past week was marked by the launching of the voter identification and registration operation in Katanga and eastern Kasaï, and yesterday Tuesday, in the territory of Aru, in northern Ituri,' Ms Rachel Eklou-Assogbavi said. She added that 'the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General, Mr William Lacy Swing went to Ituri yesterday, to visit the registration centres in Aru with the aim of encouraging this territory's inhabitants to register. He expressed his appreciation for the courage of the inhabitants of Aru.'
Regarding military activities, MONUC's military spokesman, Lieutenant-Colonel Patrick Hubert, indicated that 'the situation was generally calm'. Lt-Col Hubert recalled that 'MONUC has mobilised two battalions of 60 troops backed by a helicopter in order to verify the attack on 6 August 2005 by Maï Maï elements apparently belonging to Jackson's group against the post of the 51st battalion of the FARDC at Ishasha.'
In Ituri, 'on 8 August, during a cordon and search operation, the Pakistani battalion of the Ituri Brigade discovered 175 detonators stockpiled in a house in Mongwalu. This same battalion along with the FARDC (Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo) proceeded to arrest a militiamen suspected of spying and recruiting militiamen,' the military spokesman also said.
