Congo-Kinshasa: UN Voices Collective Alarm After Fighting Erupts in Capital

22 March 2007

New York — Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, the Security Council and the United Nations peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have condemned today's outbreak of fighting in the centre of the capital, Kinshasa, between Government forces and the guards of former Vice-President Jean-Pierre Bemba.

Calling for an immediate halt to the armed clashes, Mr. Ban warned that they posed grave consequences for the country's chances of obtaining a durable peace after the civil war and threatened the live of innocent civilians in Kinshasa.

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