The weekly News conference of Wednesday 3rd May 2006 was held by Kemal Saiki, Director of Public Information and the Mission's spokesman; the Deputy Director of MONUC Human Rights Division, Sonia Bakar; Lieutenant-colonel Frédéric Médard (Military Spokesman) and Jean-Tobie Okala
Closure of MONUC
As of 1 July 2010, MONUC was renamed the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO).