DRC's
Ileka Atoki
Says M23 At
Airport "For
Rwanda,"
MONUSCO is
Afraid
By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
November 27 --
With the UN
Security
Council set to
hear from
Susana
Malcorra, who
represented
the UN at the
Kampala talks
about the
M23, outside
the Council
Inner City
Press asked
Congolese
representative
Ileka Atoki
about the
Kampala
communique, as
regards
the Goma
airport.
Ileka
Atoki told
Inner City
Press, "you
have to look
at how it
is written.
One hundred
FARDC, one
hundred M23...
under the
chiefs of
staff of the
DRC, Rwanda
and Uganda."
He paused. "In
any
negotiation,
there are some
deals. This is
something to
say, it is
Rwanda which
is there, the
chief of staff
of Rwanda, the
head of M23,
will do the
job on behalf
of President
Kagame."
Earlier
in
the day, a
Rwandan
diplomat
emphasized to
Inner City
Press that
while the FDLR
had fired
across the
border, Rwanda
will "not be
drawn in."
Another said
the FDLR took
credit for the
attack.
In advance of
formally
assuming a
seat on the
Security
Council on
January, to
which it was
elected last
month,
Rwanda is now
present in
closed door
Security
Council
consultations.
Inner
City Press
asked Ileka
Atoki about
the comments
of US State
Department
spokesperson
Victoria
Nuland on
November 26,
that the UN's
mission
"MONUSCO was
not able to do
what it was
mandated to
do.
So I think
among the
things we need
to understand
better is how
this
relatively
modest group
of rebels was
able to grab
and hold
territory" and
that MONUSCO
"needs to be
able to be
effective in
securing
populations,
which is not
currently the
case."
Ileka
Atoki told
Inner City
Press, "I
think it's a
problem of
interpretation...
Most of the
countries
which
contribute
troops, they
view it as the
lesser one,
because they
are afraid if
many of them
die, they have
a problem back
home."
But
that is not
the case with
AMISOM in
Somalia.
Something
about the UN
and its DPKO
under Herve
Ladsous seems
to some to
encourage
under
performance
with impunity
and then, most
distinctively,
a refusal to
answer
questions.
We'll see.
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