Security Situation for September 29 2008

3 Mar 2009

Security Situation for September 29 2008

Kinshasa, September 29, 2008: The DRC Armed Forces (FARDC), based in Tchey and Quinz in the district of Ituri in Orientale Province underwent a simultaneous attack perpetrated by residual elements of the Front de résistance patriotique de l'Ituri (FRPI). MONUC dispatched an attack helicopter with the aim of checking the state of the clashes.
In response to gunfire from the FRPI armed groups, the MONUC helicopter reacted by launching two rockets on the attackers. MONUC's Ituri brigade assembled a multidimensional operation of military support to the FARDC, to help them retake control of Tchey and Quinz.

Mr. Alan Doss, Special Representative of the UN Secretary General in the Democratic Republic of Congo, left Kinshasa for New York in order to submit to the Security Council the most recent security and socio-political developments in the country.

He will also present the disengagement plan formulated by MONUC at the Security Council, which has given its unambiguous support to the efforts at reviving the peace process in the DRC.

In eastern DRC the situation is relatively calm. No clashes between the FARDC and the CNDP were announced today.

However, MONUC still noted hostile demonstrations against Blue Helmets, for not sufficiently ensuring the protection of civilian populations and for an end to the clashes, whereas the Government and the CNDP have formally committed themselves to observing the ceasefire for several days.