24 December 2007
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has voiced hope that an upcoming peace summit to be held in the troubled eastern region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) will help end a conflict that has caused tremendous suffering and the displacement of hundreds of thousands of innocent people.
In a statement issued by his spokesperson, Mr. Ban welcomed the initiative taken by the Government of the DRC and the people of North and South Kivu provinces to hold a conference aimed at bringing peace, security and development to the region. The talks are scheduled from 27 December to 5 January in Goma, the capital of North Kivu province.
Mr. Ban believes the conference has the potential to make "important steps towards ending the suffering of the population and establishing a global plan for security, stability and progress in these provinces."
Fighting has escalated in recent months between Government troops and rebels allied with the dissident army general, Laurent Nkunda, forcing hundreds of thousands of civilians to flee their homes in North Kivu.
The UN refugee agency estimates that over the last year, a mix of conflict, military build-up and spiralling lawlessness has displaced 400,000 people in North Kivu - the worst displacement since the end of the civil war in 2003. In total, there are an estimated 800,000 displaced people in the province, including those uprooted by previous conflicts.
"The people of North and South Kivu deserve a resolution to the conflicts which have caused so much suffering and massive displacement of the population, and which threaten peace and stability in the region," the statement said.
The Secretary-General urged all concerned "to seize this opportunity to initiate and sustain a dialogue aimed at peacefully addressing the many challenges facing the Kivus" and called on the country's international partners to support these efforts.
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UN know that everything is fake for the rwandese who want badly to live in kongo, they have forged everything which they are bring as proofs,first of all this trouble still because Kagome doesn't let those opponents of his to go back to rwanda unconditionnally, kagome is source of war in the great lakes area and UN know that why western countries are supporting devils just get want they want by bloody weapons, those Fdlr they are there and the war which all tutsis of rwanda burundi uganda,tanzania erythreans,somalis ethiopians were in kongo everywhere for almost six years (6 yrs) how can you tell me they couldn't catch fdlr there were no way toescape all those tutsis with all those years the have been controlling every corners of kongo ,if they did not kill them it's because they want to use this hypothesis as reason why they bringing war and that is an argument of nkunda,and those refugees nkunda is talking about is fake all of them they are all tutsis coming all over the world to overpopulate the small number of real tutsis who have been in kongo for sure,I don't think all plans made by western countries will succeed ,remember that the belgiums troups were defeated by only three (3) shorts soldiers belonged to Kimbangu so called Simon so ,and remember that the rwandese ,and all tutsis who invaded kongo were defeated by real Mai-Mai patriotics braves men and women ,even mutebutsi and nkunda will be defated ,now we know that another invasion has been prepared we know everything is not like at the beginning where the population thought it was a liberation this time americans british and middle east can provide them whatever they want ,we will take everything from them and we will send them where they came from. the kongo is for kongolese and not foe the foreigners as rwandese who think that they will take over our country ,rwndese all tutsis and all theirs supporters have to know that as longer we still the first power in the world to intercept the bullet every single effort they try we wil annihalate it.viva kongo to kongolese no matter what.