Kinshasa, September 17th, 2021 (CPA) – Prime Minister Jean-Michel Sama Lukonde chaired on Wednesday at the Prime Minister’s office, a meeting on the signing of the transition plan for the phased exit of DRC from the Mission of the United Nations Organization for the Stabilization of the Congo (MONUSCO).
This meeting was held in the presence of the Minister in charge of Planning, the Deputy Minister in charge of Foreign Affairs and the delegation of MONUSCO, led by the Special Representative of the General Secretary of the United Nations in DRC, Bintou Keita, learned CPA on Thursday, official source.
« We met the Prime Minister to conclude the work that has occupied us all, since the establishment of the joint working group on July 5th, to sign the MONUSCO transition plan which, once signed, will be formally transmitted. to the United Nations Security Council. This document will be discussed in the Security Council and its members will appreciate it », Bintou Keita said after the meeting.
Bintou Keita said that they had discussions, exchanges and real dialogues between the government side and UN side, adding that the signed document gives clear indicators on the withdrawal of UN mission.
« This document contains 18 milestones and many indicators that explain how the work must be done, therefore implemented so that at some point, MONUSCO can leave, in a gradual, responsible and sustainable way, the Democratic Republic of Congo”, she explained.
For the Congolese Government part, this Plan will run until 2024 and not only contains the steps that will have to be taken, in terms of ending violence particularly in the East, in terms of protecting the population, in terms of community stabilization as well as at the level of disarmament and reintegration, but also the obligations of the Congolese Government and MONUSCO, declared the Minister of State in charge of Planning, Christian Mwando.
We came to an agreement between the two parties and we made a plan until 2024, explained the latter.
The Minister of State in charge of Planning has finally clarified that the two parties will still have to come to an agreement once they have the final agreement of the Security Council.
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