DR CONGO: UN ENVOY CALLS FOR END TO HOSTILITIES, FOCUS ON POLITICAL PROCESS AT START OF VISIT

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Date: 2 Sep 2013 15:00:00 -0400
Subject: DR CONGO: UN ENVOY CALLS FOR END TO HOSTILITIES, FOCUS ON
POLITICAL PROCESS AT START OF VISIT
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DR CONGO: UN ENVOY CALLS FOR END TO HOSTILITIES, FOCUS ON POLITICAL
PROCESS AT START OF VISIT
New York, Sep 2 2013 3:00PM
The United Nations Special Envoy for Africa's Great Lake's region is
in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to start a regional tour
with envoys from the African Union, European Union and the United
States to bolster diplomatic efforts for peace.

Mary Robinson's visit comes amid renewed intense fighting in the
eastern DRC where over the past year, the M23, along with other armed
groups, has clashed repeatedly with the DRC national forces (FARDC).

"I urge all parties concerned to immediately stop military
confrontations in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo and
work to rebuild trust in peace efforts," the Special Envoy
<"http://www.un.org/sg/spokesperson/index.asp">said at her arrival in
the capital, Kinshasa, on Sunday.

"What the DRC and the region need is peace, stability and economic
development. This can only be achieved by tackling the root causes of
the conflict through a comprehensive political process," Mrs. Robinson
stressed.

The envoy is accompanied by Martin Kobler, the new Special
Representative of the Secretary-General for the DRC and head of the UN
mission in the DR Congo (MONUSCO).

Prior to the start of the joint regional tour, she and Mr. Kobler are
meeting with UN partners in the DRC, and travelling to Goma to
"express solidarity with the civilian population and MONUSCO,"
according to Mrs. Robinson's office.

During the four-day visit, scheduled to start on Wednesday, Mrs.
Robinson and Mr. Kobler will speak with senior government officials
and representatives of local authorities, the international community
and civil society in the DRC, Uganda and Rwanda.

They will be joined by 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.

The goal of the trip is to discourage further hostilities and to
energize political efforts for peace in the region, including the
so-called Kampala talks held under the auspices of the Chairperson of
the International Conference for the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR),
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni.

While in Kampala on 5 September, Mrs. Robinson and the envoys will
attend an extraordinary session of the IGCLR focused on the crisis in
eastern DRC.

According to Mrs. Robinson's office, they will stress the urgency of
steps forward in the implementation of the 11-nation Peace, Security
and Cooperation Framework for the DRC and the region signed earlier
this year under UN auspices as a comprehensive approach to sustainable
peace in the region.

Mrs. Robinson had dubbed the accord a "framework of hope" and has
repeatedly said that there is a renewed opportunity in eastern DRC and
the Great Lakes to address the underlying causes of the conflict and
stop the violence for good.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Friday said he was "deeply
concerned" about the escalating violence and in particular by the
indiscriminate shelling by the armed group M23 which caused deaths,
injuries and damage among the civilian population in the eastern
provinces as well as the immediate border area in Rwanda. A UN
peacekeeper also died in one of the attacks.

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 internally displaced people (IDPs) and 6.4
million in need of food and emergency aid.
Sep 2 2013 3:00PM
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