Kigali — The United Nations has expressed worries over the continued existence of the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR), rebels linked to the 1994 Tutsi Genocide, in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.
This was revealed by the Haile Menkerios, United Nations Assistant Secretary-General for Political Affairs, after his meeting with President Paul Kagame, at Urugwiro Village.
Menkerios, said that the existence of the FDLR in DR Congo, poses a big threat to the two neighbouring countries' relations.
He was sent to Rwanda by the UN Secretary General Ban ki-Moon, to meet with President Kagame and look for possible alternatives to the conflict in the Congo.
Menkerios's visit to Rwanda, comes a day after the UN Secretary General condemned recent artillery shelling of the Rwandan side by President Joseph Kabila forces as they fled Goma.
Speaking to the Press after holding lengthy discussions with President Kagame, Menkerios, said that he was heartened that the two leaders of Rwanda and DR Congo are in contact and would brief ki-Moon on developments.
DRC sent its Foreign Affairs minister to Rwanda early this week, while Rwanda's Foreign Affairs Minister is also in DRC to meet with President Kabila.
Menkerios however, emphasised that the primary cause of the problem is the existence of FDLR in Congo and that the Kinshasa government has to play a leading role in cooling the tension by imposing the Nairobi Communiqué.
He added that the issue is more of an internal problem within DR Congo since renegade Gen. Laurent Nkunda is Congolese.
The government in Kinshasa has accused Rwanda of actively supporting Gen. Nkunda but Kigali has denied the accusations and emphasised that the fighting was an internal DR Congo affair for which it bore no responsibility.
"But there are accusations and suspicions from the other end that Rwanda is supporting Nkunda; The fact is whether it is an internal issue or not, it does affect relations of the two countries; the presence of FDLR/Interahamwe in DRC does affect the relations of the two countries," said Menkerios.
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This bi-lateral deal is useless, people must not get seen as stupid.
Joseph Kibila illegallly allowed Rwanda-Army to enter the D R Congo out of the D R Conogo parliament consent, plotted by UN so that the bi-lateralism should off-set xenophobic-mania.
DFLR and HINDERAHAMWE all are known in D R Congo and universally as Military and Civil refugees. UNHCR opened,in the D R congo-eastern-wide, refugee camps while they had known very well about them.
But to day,the UN itself is calling them terrorists, fine- UN inflicts the seed of terror in these two lands.
Why the UN does not involve in THE MULT-DEATHLY 5 000 000 of the D R Congolese and their Hutu-Rwandan brothers from 1996 to 2002.
UN is for all, not partial. The mult-death of the D R Congolese is put upon its back, it gets to know that pertaining with this political crisis in the D R Congo will worsen everything, eventually UN should get seen unwinting.
I need from the D R Congo prominent government to pull out of this tomorrow plight set-up on the D R Congo and the rest of Africa.
All falsehoods and crimes are always instigated by UN Agencies to the D R Congo.
BARAKA INNATE is a private entity as criminal analyst and socio-economic strategist on the D R Congo Eastern Crimes.