The situation concerning the Democratic Republic of the Congo - Security Council, 9887th meeting

🇨🇩 Democratic Republic of the Congo

1. 🇨🇩 Democratic Republic of the CongoFirst reply▶ 2:32:55 · 4 min

   Thank you, Madam President. Madam President, I didn't wish to take the floor at this stage, but I've just listened to Rwanda's statement, and as such I'm tempted to ask whether we're all, in fact, on the planet Earth. Do we all live here? Because you will have noted that Rwanda is putting forward the same arguments, the hackneyed arguments regarding the origins of the conflict, despite the fact it's been established here. That Rwanda is the origin of the conflict. It didn't begin with it didn't begin with the FDLR. The conflict began in Rwanda. It's a Rwandan conflict. A Rwandan conflict. And it began before the genocide. The genocide began with the killing of President Abdirahmah. That's the origin of the current conflict. And i it played out in Rwanda between the Rwandans. We look we need to look for the roots of the killing of that president because that's where the conflict began. Secondly, argument in as i linked to the FDLR and the genocide, that's an outdated argument, a hackneyed one again. Here, a Rwandan ambassadors clearly stated that the FDLR phenomenon Is no longer a threat to Rwanda because the FDLR have been practically rooted out entirely. That was said here. However, we have ac we said if that's the case, okay, we will contribute to the operation ironing out the FDLR. But if but if that didn't happen, well it's Rwanda's fault. They confused everything. Regarding the persecution of the Tutsis. We've always s seen knives being shoved around twisted in the wounds. There's always frustration because the genocide occurred in Rwanda between the Rwandan people, but we see genocide everywhere. The Democratic Republic of the Congo is a country with four hundred and fifty ethnic groups, but Rwanda only has two ethnic groups. So the Rwandan conflict cannot be transposed onto the DRC. It's not it's not logical. For us to target or or target one ethnic group when we have four hundred and fifty. I did take the floor, Madam President, to react to the stance, the insulting stance adopted by Rwanda against the United Nations and MUNUSCO. We can't understand Rwanda as a TCC denigrating throughout the whole day UN reports saying that Rwanda is invading the territory of the DRC. including the fact that they're perpetrating grave violations of human rights. That's what MNUSCO's reported to us here. We can't understand that Rwanda as a TCC is slandering these reports, besmirching MNUSCO's work, but nevertheless welcomes the fact that Rwandan nationals are appointed by the Secretary General to senior positions in the United Nations, and at the same time they're delighted to be a TCC to the United Nations, despite the fact that they never accept a single report that it issues. That's what I wanted to come back to, madam president. I remain here I'll stop there and I thank you.

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