UN ENVOY STRESSES NEED TO TACKLE IMPUNITY IN DR CONGO

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Date: 7 Sep 2013 14:00:01 -0400
Subject: UN ENVOY STRESSES NEED TO TACKLE IMPUNITY IN DR CONGO
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UN ENVOY STRESSES NEED TO TACKLE IMPUNITY IN DR CONGO
New York, Sep 7 2013 2:00PM
A top United Nations official focusing on the Democratic Republic of
the Congo (DRC) has stressed the need to address impunity in the
country, which has seen massive displacement over the past year along
with pervasive violence and rights abuses.

"We will not repeat the past mistakes, we believe that there should
not be amnesty for those accused of having committed serious crimes,
nor should they be integrated in the armed forces of the DRC," the
Special Envoy of the Secretary-General to the Great Lakes Region, Mary
Robinson, told reporters in the eastern city of Goma on Friday.

"The international community represented here must contemplate a
holistic approach of resolving this conflict, the military approach
when necessary and the political approach that can yield a lasting and
durable impact for the region."

Ms. Robinson was in Goma as part of a four-day tour of the region with
the Secretary-General's Special Representative in the DRC, Martin
Kobler. Boubacar Diarra, Special Representative of the African Union;
Koen Vervaeke, European Union Senior Coordinator for the Great Lakes
region; and Russ Feingold, US Special Envoy for the African Great
Lakes region and the DRC are also taking part in the tour.

Mr. Kobler, who also heads the UN Organization Stabilization Mission
in the DRC (MONUSCO), expressed satisfaction at the decision by Heads
of State at the Kampala talks in Uganda on Wednesday, to include
MONUSCO as a key player in the Joint Verification Mechanism (JVM),
which monitors the common borders of the 11 members of the
International Conference for the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR).

Mr. Kobler said this would enhance the mechanism's ability to verify
and be able to ascertain facts expeditiously.

While in Goma, the envoys were briefed by MONUSCO's Force Intervention
Brigade. They also met with the Governor of North Kivu province,
visited the Mugunga camp for internally displaced persons (IDPs) on
the outskirts of the city, and were briefed on humanitarian issues.

At the conclusion of the visit, they departed Goma for the Rwandan
capital of Kigali.

The M23 -- composed of soldiers who mutinied from the DRC national
army in April -- along with other armed groups, has clashed repeatedly
with the DRC national forces (FARDC).

In the past year, the fighting has displaced more than 100,000 people,
exacerbating an ongoing humanitarian crisis in the region which
includes 2.6 million IDPs and 6.4 million in need of food and
emergency aid.
Sep 7 2013 2:00PM
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