UN
United Nations Peacekeeping
4 Mar
2009
Press Review
Today's Congolese press focuses on the draft law relating to the political parties, the legal rules and regulations on the police and the army forces adopted Monday by the extraordinary meeting of the transitional government. Some papers also devote their comments to the all-inclusive agreement and the elections.
« Yesterday's extraordinary cabinet meeting presided by the Head of State, Joseph Kabila, adopted the draft law on the creation, organization and functioning of the political parties. Another extraordinary meeting is due to be held this Tuesday to look into the draft decree on the creation, organization and functioning of the National Commission for Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration as well as other army-related issues, especially the unity of the integrated police tasked to protect the institutions and the transitional government top officials», announces Le Phare.
In view of the sensitive nature of the issues to be addressed, Le Potentiel draws government's attention on the main objectives of the Transition. « Two weeks away from the end of the second half, the government of national unity put in place on 30 June 2003, still has a lot to accomplish. The actors of the transitional institutions must within the next 18 months to achieve the reunification, the pacification, and the reconstruction of the country, the restoration and integrity of the national territory. They should as well organize free and transparent elections at every level conducive to a democratic constitutional regime» stresses the paper.
« The 2005 presidential elections: an illusion», headlines La Référence Plus. This paper echoes the open letter recently addressed to the Head of State by Les Coulisses, a weekly, published in northeastern DR Congo, stressing « the population's concerns over the elections. » This local paper says, « it emerges from these concerns that the 2005 deadline is a Chinese puzzle. The weekly Les Coulisses wonders whether the elections can be envisaged by 2005, whether the census and referendum are among the 2004 priorities above the electoral stakes» in view of the « enormous difficulties faced by those acting in the presidential sphere. »
Le Phare says, « Brussels will hold on to the two year-deadline whatever the circumstances» set for the preparation of the elections in the Democratic Republic of the In this regard, the paper echoes the declaration made by the delegation of the Belgium Senate who came on a special fact-finding mission to Kinshasa. «From the different contacts made with the Congolese decision makers, it emerges that the Belgian senators insisted to each and every one of them on the need to carry through the Transition, that is, the organization of democratic and transparent elections. »
As result of the visit made by the President of the Belgian Senate to Kinshasa, « President Joseph Kabila is invited by the Belgian government in February 2004 » announces L'Observateur.
La Référence Plus « highly commends Joseph Kabila » on the eve of the first anniversary of the All-inclusive agreement reached on 17 December 2002. « It is indisputable that Joseph Kabila has been at the center of all the political stakes, as holder of the disputed power'having culminated to the All-inclusive agreement reached on 17 December 2002 which led to the promulgation of the Transitional constitution and the establishment of the transitional institutions. Many people are of the opinion that any patriot, irrespective of ideological and political considerations, must join, in the present circumstances, the Lumumbists and the Kabilists in paying the tribute due to J. Kabila by the DR Congo' for his firm commitment to the cause of peace in his country, Joseph Kabila has entered the pantheon of the greats» stresses the paper.
On the first year of the All-inclusive Agreement, « Congolese people are to extend their gratitude to Joseph Kabila at Palais du Peuple in an ecumenical worship this morning at the church known as Armée de l'Eternel » announces L'Avenir.
In view of the sensitive nature of the issues to be addressed, Le Potentiel draws government's attention on the main objectives of the Transition. « Two weeks away from the end of the second half, the government of national unity put in place on 30 June 2003, still has a lot to accomplish. The actors of the transitional institutions must within the next 18 months to achieve the reunification, the pacification, and the reconstruction of the country, the restoration and integrity of the national territory. They should as well organize free and transparent elections at every level conducive to a democratic constitutional regime» stresses the paper.
« The 2005 presidential elections: an illusion», headlines La Référence Plus. This paper echoes the open letter recently addressed to the Head of State by Les Coulisses, a weekly, published in northeastern DR Congo, stressing « the population's concerns over the elections. » This local paper says, « it emerges from these concerns that the 2005 deadline is a Chinese puzzle. The weekly Les Coulisses wonders whether the elections can be envisaged by 2005, whether the census and referendum are among the 2004 priorities above the electoral stakes» in view of the « enormous difficulties faced by those acting in the presidential sphere. »
Le Phare says, « Brussels will hold on to the two year-deadline whatever the circumstances» set for the preparation of the elections in the Democratic Republic of the In this regard, the paper echoes the declaration made by the delegation of the Belgium Senate who came on a special fact-finding mission to Kinshasa. «From the different contacts made with the Congolese decision makers, it emerges that the Belgian senators insisted to each and every one of them on the need to carry through the Transition, that is, the organization of democratic and transparent elections. »
As result of the visit made by the President of the Belgian Senate to Kinshasa, « President Joseph Kabila is invited by the Belgian government in February 2004 » announces L'Observateur.
La Référence Plus « highly commends Joseph Kabila » on the eve of the first anniversary of the All-inclusive agreement reached on 17 December 2002. « It is indisputable that Joseph Kabila has been at the center of all the political stakes, as holder of the disputed power'having culminated to the All-inclusive agreement reached on 17 December 2002 which led to the promulgation of the Transitional constitution and the establishment of the transitional institutions. Many people are of the opinion that any patriot, irrespective of ideological and political considerations, must join, in the present circumstances, the Lumumbists and the Kabilists in paying the tribute due to J. Kabila by the DR Congo' for his firm commitment to the cause of peace in his country, Joseph Kabila has entered the pantheon of the greats» stresses the paper.
On the first year of the All-inclusive Agreement, « Congolese people are to extend their gratitude to Joseph Kabila at Palais du Peuple in an ecumenical worship this morning at the church known as Armée de l'Eternel » announces L'Avenir.
