As
M23 Leader
Banned from
Kampala by
UNSC, Rwanda
PR Notes
Contradictions
By
Matthew
Russell Lee,
Exclusive
UNITED
NATIONS,
January 3 --
After M23
political
leader
Jean-Marie
Runiga
told reporters
in Bunagana
that "his
team" was
returning to
Kampala for
talks with the
Congolese
government,
with an first
emphasis on a
ceasefire, in
New York Inner
City Press
asked new
Security
Council member
and Rwandese
Permanent
Representative
Gasana
about the
situation.
On
New Year's
Eve, the
Security
Council
imposed a
travel ban on
Runiga.
Gasana sighed
and
exclusively
told Inner
City Press,
"This is the
whole
structure
of the UN.
They want them
to negotiate,
then they put
on a travel
ban."
It
appears that
the effect of
the Security
Council travel
ban is to
undermine the
Kampala talks,
which might
breakdown on
the Kabila
government's
refusal to
sign a
ceasefire
anyway.
Ambassador
Gasana
told Inner
City Press,
"We have to
set a cease
fire, it
shouldn't be a
pretext. Let
the big guys
here talk
again, see how
they can
handle the
stuff in
Congo. We
don't need to
stop the
process. It's
very important
to keep that
process
going."
The
next meeting
in the
Security
Council will
be a briefing
on Thursday
afternoon
about another
country in
which rebels
gained
territory, the
Central
African
Republic.
There, the
Security
Council's
level and
direction of
focus has been
quite
different.
Inner
City Press
asked Gasana
about the CAR.
He said, "They
should get
back to the
2008 [deal]...
First of all
not to give a
chance to the
rebels to take
arms and go
fight, second
to ask the
President
[Bozize] to
follow what
they agreed
upon in 2008."
Sort of like
what Kabila
agreed on
March 23,
2009? Watch
this site.
, 
