D R Congo crisis brief: Ntarugera Deo Koya, Communication, political & diplomatic affairs Consultant , Director, Rufari International, Kigali Office Mail bag 2995 Kigali, Rwanda Phone: +250 78 8685751 email: [email protected] The Attention of: Presidents Vladimir Putin, Barack Obama, Xi Jinping, Yoweri Museveni, Paul Kagame, Joseph Kabila and ICGLR peers; Prime Minister David Cameron, Chancellor Angela Merkel The Government of the Democratic Republic of Congo must sign the agreement that was negotiated at length with the m23 Reference the attached Special Briefing by Russell D. Feingold, Special US government Envoy for the Great Lakes and the Democratic Republic of the Congo; Further reference the Kabila dynasty government’s abiding failure to protect the eastern Congolese nations ill-fitted into the “Congolese national community” by virtue of a disastrous political history spanning 130 years; Granted the unabating French government induced rebounding Congolese crisis spanning 20 years (kick-started by the celebrated Turquoise of sinister memory), with incalculable calamitous consequences in eastern Congolese territories bounding Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania and Uganda; We caution the government of the Democratic republic of Congo on its inescapable responsibility, as substantiated in the US special envoys report, to get down and sign the agreement that was negotiated at length with the M23 Rebellion. Make no mistake about that, please. Any further attempt to procrastinate and misbehave politically on the part of the Kinshasa government delegation would entail incalculable tragic consequences. You must all know that what you have been doing with the March 23 Movement’s delegation in Kampala since December 2012 involves the destiny of multiple peoples of eastern Congo, and the generality of the Congolese citizenry. So watch your steps, Mr. Raymond Tshibanda, you Lambert Mende and you Abbot Malumalu. You must re-learn to appreciate what it means to be “a Statesman”. You are not individuals there in Kampala. You are Statesmen. You are “the government of the Democratic republic of the Congo”. Do therefore act as a government that has a full sense of the political imperative to seek an end to the eastern Congo bloody turbulence, and mark a new beginning in national political investment: negotiated arrangements due to produce short term peace and security dividends paving the way for the re-enfranchisement of millions of people and the long overdue economic development of the country. The eastern Congo populations have inexplicably suffered and lived in the fringe of the Congolese state authority for far too long. The time to stop that is now. It is senseless for the Congolese government officials abetted by foreign cronies, to accord time to endless celebrations of a would-be military over the M23 rebellion’s army. There are urgent political matters at hand that must be attended to in earnest by both contracting parties: the government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the M23 politicians. We urge responsible leaders of the world community of nations to make it a point of duty, and legal responsibility, to exert pressure on the government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and make them realize that they are further aggravating matters, and further ruining Congolese populations. Why are they unduly delaying the signing of the agreement that was desultorily negotiated, and eventually finalized with the M23 rebellion in Kampala, on November 4, 2013? The time to sign that Kampala Agreement is now! No further procrastination! Presidents Vladimir Putin, Barack Obama, Xi Jinping, Yoweri Museveni, Paul Kagame, Joseph Kabila and ICGLR peers: do please further act on the above said. Failure to sensibly act in respect of the above said, on the part of leaders of nations of the western hemisphere, some of whom are to be held accountable for the lengthy disruption of law and order, peace and security, in D R Congo, and indeed in the great lakes region as a whole, will entail regrettable consequences that will adversely affect relations between said nations and the D r Congo, for decades to come. Ntarugera deo koya, Communication, political & diplomatic affairs Consultant , Director, Rufari International, Kigali office +250 78 8685751 **************** Special Briefing by Russell D. Feingold, Special US government Envoy for the Great Lakes and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Via Teleconference Washington, DC November 6, 2013 state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2013/11/217298.htm#.UnrFHioSSJo.facebook ..................... ..................... And I was personally involved in five different evenings of negotiations that greatly narrowed the difference between the Democratic Republic of Congo and then – and the M23. Much of the question was resolved at that point, but there didn’t seem the will on the part of the M23 to actually sign. That led to a final round of negotiations this past weekend that also went late in the night in Kampala, and the result of that is what you’ve been reading about, that after all these negotiations, it was agreed that a first step to resolve the M23 issue was the M23 would announce that it is disbanding, that it is renouncing its rebellion. They have made that statement. The second is that the Democratic Republic of the Congo would say they would stop military action against the M23. Those two steps have essentially happened. The third step, though, has to occur yet, and that is the actual signing of an agreement or engagement that has been worked out in great detail. It’s not like this has to be negotiated; it’s already negotiated. It’s ready to be signed. And I and the other special envoys are standing by, ready to return to Kampala for that sort of a ceremony or meeting as early as tomorrow or early next week. Again, though, this would only resolve one aspect of the issue, the very serious problem of the M23. It does not deal with the root cause – all the other root causes of the problem, does not deal with the so-called FDLR and the ADF and other armed groups and all the issues about what the Democratic Republic of the Congo has to do in order to reform itself. ... ……….
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