The United Nations (AP) -The United Nations officials in Africa on Wednesday warned of an emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council that the aggressive widespread region of the Rwanda-backed rebels in the mineral-rich Eastern Congo was threatening peace in the widespread region.
“It is necessary that this council takes immediate and decisive steps to prevent a broad regional war,” said Binto Kita, the special messenger of the United Nations for the Congo.
The seizure of major cities in eastern Congo by the M23 rebel group in recent weeks and the statements of major parties show that “the risk of a regional conflict is more real than ever,” Huang Zia said, Africa’s great lakes of Africa said. For the United Nations Special Envoy. The region, which includes Congo, Burundi, Rwanda and Uganda.
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French UN Ambassador Nicolas de Rivere urged the council to adopt a draft proposal aired by his country two weeks ago, which confirms the support for the regional integrity and sovereignty of the Congo, M23 aggressive and randon soldiers Urms a return, and calls and calls. Immediate resulting talks start.
“The risk of a regional war is increasing every day,” he said.
The M23 is the most prominent of the more than 100 armed groups for the control of trillion dollars of Eastern Congo in mineral funds. The region is rich in Gold and Colon, which is a major mineral used in consumer electronics such as laptops and smartphones.
According to United Nations experts, the rebels are supported by about 4,000 soldiers from neighboring Rwanda, and sometimes vowed to march as Kinshhasa, the capital of the Congo, more than 1,000 miles away.
In three weeks of aggressive, M23 took control of Goma, the main city of Eastern Congo and seized the second largest city of Buchvu on Sunday.
Kita, head of the peace mission of the United Nations in the Congo, also told the Security Council that since then, M23 has carried forward the city of Kamanola at the intersection of three borders – Congo, Rwanda and Burundi.
Congo Foreign Minister Theres Kayikwamba Wagner demanded the security council to order immediate withdrawal of Rwandan soldiers.
“These forces have trampled international law, brought death and havoc and violated our sovereignty,” he said.
Criticizing the President of the Congo for demanding sanctions against his country from Western governments, the UN Ambassador of Rwanda, UN Ambassador, said, “The African leadership should resolve the struggle.”
At this stage, the United Nations does not know the M32 agenda, the intention of its backers or how far they will go and why Huang said, the Great Lakes United Nations Envoy.
Huang said Huang, “Before we stop this situation before seeing the trigger of a broad regional war, the results will be destructive” and by reducing efforts in the last decade to bring stability in the Central Africa region, Huang Said.
The United Nations Human Rights Council launched a commission this month, which would investigate atrocities, including allegations of rape and murders for “summary execution” by both sides.
