UN General Assembly: Tshisekedi expresses the expectations of the DRC with regard to MONUSCO
The President of the DRC, Félix Tshisekedi, during his video speech at the UN Annual General Assembly.
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The President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Félix Tshisekedi, closed the first day of speeches at the UN General Assembly on Tuesday.
He returned to the domestic management of the pandemic, before discussing the UN mission stationed in his country and undergoing transformation.
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For the 75th
Annual General Assembly of the UN
, world leaders are making their speeches by recorded video, because of the coronavirus pandemic.
And it was the President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo,
Félix Tshisekedi
, who closed the first day of speech.
After pleading for an outright cancellation of the debt of developing countries in the face of the economic crisis that followed the health crisis, he returned to the management of the
Covid-19 pandemic
, before evoking the stationed UN mission in his country and in the process of transformation.
He expressed his government's expectations with regard to MONUSCO.
In particular, he calls for "
the strengthening of collaboration on the ground
" between Monusco and the FARDC, the Congolese armed forces, "
so that the firepower expected to protect the population and restore peace, security and the full authority of the State throughout the national territory, be effective
”.
He also spoke of his "
determination
" to "
restore, as soon as possible, the smile to the populations of the East
".
For this, he expressed his will "
to increase the operational capacity of the Intervention Brigade, in particular by providing it with special units adapted to the asymmetric warfare imposed on us by the armed groups in the east of the country
".
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