Congolese Irish Partnership: - press release on the Pretoria agreement

Monday October 14, 2002 13:46

by Congolese Irish Partnership

Congolese Irish Partnership: - press release on the Pretoria agreement

Congolese Irish Partnership: - press release on the Pretoria agreement
The signature of Pretoria agreement took place on 30th July2002 in South African republic.

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The Rwandan and Congolese presidents posed this act before the special representatives of the secretary general of the UNO, Mr. Moustapha Niasse as well as other heads of state of the sub-region and of the African continent. It is about, as it is seen through this great mobilization, of the international community and of the African continent, of a gesture whose importance is not to prove. But between this known importance and the effective implementation of the agreement, there is a margin, very important.

In fact, the Congolese have known many agreements. No one has responded to the expectations of the people, even that of Lusaka which had immobilized more people than that of Pretoria. This last agreement has the particularity of being signed at a moment where the Congolese ideal presents the crisis which holds sway in this country under a more reassuring angle. Today, not an actor of the Congolese crisis still has a hidden agenda, everything is clear, and is known now on.

It is the case with the Rcd/Congo which revealed what we had always denounced the extrovert character of the action of Rcd/Goma presented as a simple international alibi to mask the aggression of the Rd-Congo by Rwanda, Uganda and Burundi. Even the silent partners of this aggression can't no longer pretend to operate under the shadow.

People think, they can give more chance to the agreement of Pretoria than that of Lusaka negotiated and signed in confusion such that it is not known what is the root of the problem and by where to take it to bring to the conflict the expected solution. It comes out to us "we have the right to see to believe" that the international deal will no longer have anything to do with this kind of war on the meaness background. But no one will convince the Congolese of the determination of Paul Kagame to withdraw his troops from the Democratic Republic of Congo. The will of signing the agreement is from time to time denied by a deceitful speech which, tends to consider this agreement as a victory of Kigali which from now on, expects that Kinshasa brings to him the interahamwe and the ex-Far hands and feet tied up.

According to all assurances given by the south African republic and other partners in charge of the follow up and the effective application of this agreement, Kigali will no longer be right to side-stepping. The Congolese Irish Partnership (C.I.P) believe that by the fact that Monuc which would be able to transform itself into the force of imposition of peace, will be at two places at once in the operation of demobilization. If there is a collaboration for this operation to succeed, that of Kigali is more expected than that of Kinshasa. With much good will, it can be possible to overcome the irrealism of the imparted delay for the total withdrawal of Apr from the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Pierrot Ngadi
Chairman
Congolese Irish Partnership
19 Belvedere Place, Dublin 1

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