MONUC
United Nations Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Closure of MONUC

On 1 July 2010, the UN Security Council renamed MONUC the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO) to reflect the new phase reached in the country.

Press Review 14 March 2005

President Joseph Kabila's Tour to Asia is broadly and diversely commented by today's local press.
<< Joseph Kabila seeking Chinese investments>>, Le Potentiel writes on its front page. For the paper, the Congolese president's move has two objectives: To explain to his hosts the difficult progress of the DRC transition process and to win over investors by holding out the DRC's huge potentialities. The paper refers to it as a difficult mission arguing that <>. Le Potentiel further argues that << the logic of business governing business in Western Europe has been gaining ground in Asian financial circles>>.

At the end, this edition predicts that << steeped in their political culture, Japanese, Chinese and Koreans investors might draft some memorandums of agreements for activities in DRC but will have to wait until a democratically elected government and place a Rule of Law are in place>>. In this respect, echoing a Human Rights NGO La Voix Des Sans Voix, La Tempête des Tropiques considers that Joseph Kabila is putting a strain on the Public Treasury in << leading a mission including 200 people to Asia>>, which l'Observateur and Le Palmarès do not share. The first reports that Joseph Kabila was scheduled to be received by emperor Akihito, indicating that << both personalities should review the DRC transition process and the organisation of free and democratic elections due in 2005>>. Le Palmarès further says and reassures <>. Through its headline that reads Opponents have sent Joseph Kabila to an imaginary exile, L'Avenir reveals that <>, noting that < >.

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