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Press Review of 8 November 2005
The news conference held by the delegation of the UN Security Council at the end of their mission is the major news in today's local papers.
'The delegation of the UN Security Council led by the French ambassador to the United Nations, Jean Marc De La Sablière, held a press conference yesterday,' after meeting respectively with President Joseph Kabila, the four Vice-Presidents, the Speaker of the Parliament, the President of the Senate, some ministers, the civil society (') reports L'Observateur. A large number of Congolese political stakeholders 'voiced their readiness for elections in 2006,' informs Le Palmarès, echoing Jean Marc De La Sablière. 'Considerable progress has been achieved [with] over twenty million people registered'six integrated brigades, [besides] the ongoing efforts to equip the country with a modern police and an army able to defend the DRC territorial integrity,' explains L'Avenir. Therefore, 'It would be in the best interest of UDPS to join the transition process,' says L'Avenir, pro-President Kabila's party. The twenty million voters registered are indicative of 'the Congolese people's willingness to vote,' writes Le Palmarès. Furthermore, 'nobody must be excluded nor exclude themselves from the process,' recalls L'Observateur. 'Implication by all the political forces, including UDPS to the electoral process would be good news for the Congolese people,' says Le Phare [pro UDPS], echoing the chief of the UN Security council's Mission to the Great Lakes region, Jean Marc De La Sablière.
Prior to its effective implication to the ongoing electoral process, 'UDPS demands negotiations for political readjustment to avert an emergency landing of the transition (') and to give necessary credit and legitimacy to the ballot results,' in a memorandum handed to the delegation of the UN Security Council, notes Le Palmarès. At the end of the negotiations, they say, 'a new broad-based government, able to seal a genuine national reconciliation, must be put in place. Its mission would, amongst others, consist in imposing good governance in order to speed up the electoral process to be held within a reasonable time frame,' further says L'Observateur. Whatever the case may be, 'it is not the Security Council's responsibility to sort out the Congolese people's internal problems,' points out L'Avenir. For the UN Security Council, 'transition must end on 30 June 2006,' warns Le Phare.
To protest against the murder of Franck Kangundu, journalist of the daily paper 'La Référence Plus' and his spouse, 'a huge crowd of journalists and media professionals took to the streets yesterday Monday,' reports L'Observateur, in another development. The objective of the march 'was double fold: to express media professionals' anger at the coward murder of the journalist and his wife and to draw the transition government's attention to its responsibility, that of securing the Congolese population in general, and the press in particular,' explains Le Phare. This concern may be met by the government since Vice-president Azarias Ruberwa stated, 'the transition government will do everything in its power to protect journalists and their dependants,' says L'Avenir. 'The promise [was] received by demonstrators with some scepticism,' the paper points out, indicating, 'The Vice-president confirmed the arrest of two suspects [with] serious evidence of guilt,' notes Le Phare.
Prior to its effective implication to the ongoing electoral process, 'UDPS demands negotiations for political readjustment to avert an emergency landing of the transition (') and to give necessary credit and legitimacy to the ballot results,' in a memorandum handed to the delegation of the UN Security Council, notes Le Palmarès. At the end of the negotiations, they say, 'a new broad-based government, able to seal a genuine national reconciliation, must be put in place. Its mission would, amongst others, consist in imposing good governance in order to speed up the electoral process to be held within a reasonable time frame,' further says L'Observateur. Whatever the case may be, 'it is not the Security Council's responsibility to sort out the Congolese people's internal problems,' points out L'Avenir. For the UN Security Council, 'transition must end on 30 June 2006,' warns Le Phare.
To protest against the murder of Franck Kangundu, journalist of the daily paper 'La Référence Plus' and his spouse, 'a huge crowd of journalists and media professionals took to the streets yesterday Monday,' reports L'Observateur, in another development. The objective of the march 'was double fold: to express media professionals' anger at the coward murder of the journalist and his wife and to draw the transition government's attention to its responsibility, that of securing the Congolese population in general, and the press in particular,' explains Le Phare. This concern may be met by the government since Vice-president Azarias Ruberwa stated, 'the transition government will do everything in its power to protect journalists and their dependants,' says L'Avenir. 'The promise [was] received by demonstrators with some scepticism,' the paper points out, indicating, 'The Vice-president confirmed the arrest of two suspects [with] serious evidence of guilt,' notes Le Phare.
