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United Nations Peacekeeping
9 Mar
2009
Press Review 31 January 2005
The International Committee for the Support of the Transition (CIAT)'s remarks about the risks of the transition institution's break-up is the major topic in today's local press.
L'AVENIR highlights «CIAT's serious warning about the risks of the transition getting out of control». The paper publishes the CIAT communiqué expressing its serious concerns in this respect. «In an unambiguous communiqué, it eases the minds and recalls the absolute necessity for holding the elections. The committee says, there is no cause for alarm since all the necessary arrangements are in place», the paper writes. «Faced with the risks of the breaking-up of the transition, CIAT urges the Congolese people not to give in and to keep calm'. L'OBSERVATEUR, for its part, writes «CIAT has launched an urgent appeal for all the DRC transition actors and political leaders to make every possible effort in order to accelerate the transition process'. L'OBSERVATEUR also quotes a diplomat and member of the CIAT as saying that the 'Congolese political actors must be pressured into addressing the major issues since the drafting of the juridical framework, the constitution and the law on the voters' census is way behind schedule».
LE POTENTIEL announces «the opening of the inter-institutional seminar this Monday» and refers to 'elections in piecemeal'. The paper points out the 'harsh realities faced on the ground', notably 'large portion of the DRC territory still not pacified: the district of Ituri, both Kivus, and a portion of Katanga with on the other hand, over two millions displaced, the absence of a genuine national army'. The paper therefore wonders whether 'there will just hold elections in piecemeal'. However, some political parties are rather optimistic. The 'Pro-Lumumba Unified Party (PALU) is quoted by LA TEMPETE DES TROPIQUES as stating that it is in favour of an electoral calendar that would consider June 30 as a deadline for the transition. «PALU is confident that with some political goodwill, it will be possible to hold the elections in six months; Without any political goodwill, they will not be able to achieve this goal whatever the duration of the prolongation, not even 12 months'', the paper says.
LE POTENTIEL announces «the opening of the inter-institutional seminar this Monday» and refers to 'elections in piecemeal'. The paper points out the 'harsh realities faced on the ground', notably 'large portion of the DRC territory still not pacified: the district of Ituri, both Kivus, and a portion of Katanga with on the other hand, over two millions displaced, the absence of a genuine national army'. The paper therefore wonders whether 'there will just hold elections in piecemeal'. However, some political parties are rather optimistic. The 'Pro-Lumumba Unified Party (PALU) is quoted by LA TEMPETE DES TROPIQUES as stating that it is in favour of an electoral calendar that would consider June 30 as a deadline for the transition. «PALU is confident that with some political goodwill, it will be possible to hold the elections in six months; Without any political goodwill, they will not be able to achieve this goal whatever the duration of the prolongation, not even 12 months'', the paper says.
