Rwanda
FM Mushikiwabo
Tells ICP M23
Due to FDLR,
Ready for
Addis
By
Matthew
Russell Lee,
Exclusive
UNITED
NATIONS,
February 12 –
When Rwanda
foreign
minister
Louise
Mushikiwabo
came to the UN
Security
Council on
Tuesday the
debate was
the Protection
of Civilians,
which she told
Inner City
Press is “a
very important
topic for
Rwanda.”
On
that, Inner
City Press
asked Minister
Mushikiwabo
about what's
called
the political
framework and
about a talk
the day
previous by
the US
State
Department's
Johnnie Carson
in which the
year-end
sanctions on
the M23 were
mentioned, but
not those on
the FDLR
militia.
“M23
is there
because of
insecurity
that came with
FDLR,”
Minister
Mushikiwabo
told Inner
City Press.
“We have to
think
differently.”
On
the political
framework,
which was NOT
signed as
Eight Plus One
and
has now grown
to Eleven Plus
One, Minister
Mushikiwabo
said “it's a
good
framework,
it's a sort of
pact of the
neighbors and
the DRC
itself and the
international
community.”
She
said, “I hope
partners in
the region who
were not ready
now are,
that's what we
hear, I am
ready to go to
Addis any
time” to sign
the framework.
Stepping
back,
when Rwanda
was elected
along with
four other
countries to
the
Security
Council, some
including
Human Rights
Watch focused
exclusively on
Rwanda as the
incoming
member that
would cause
problems for
international
peace and
security.
Forty
days in, it
seems that the
inclusion and
Presidency of
South Korea
has played a
role at least
in the timing
of North
Korea's
nuclear
test.
Inner City
Press on
Tuesday asked
South Korean
foreign
minister
Kim Sung-hwan
whether South
Korea thinks
or
acknowledges
that the
timing of the
nuclear test
is related to
its new
membership on
the
Security
Council and
especially its
presidency
this month.
“We
can guess,”
Kim Sung-hwan
replied. So
can we. Watch
this site.
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