By Prensa Latina
United Nations : UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon welcomed on MOnday the peace initiative of the government of Democratic Congo in the provinces of North Kivu and South Kivu, for security and development.
A statement by Ban Ki-Moon circulated in the UN highlighted the Kinshasa government’s call to a meeting in those Congolese eastern provinces, victims of the outbreak of armed confrontations.
The meeting can adopt significant steps to put an end to the suffering of the population and establish a plan for security, stability and progress in the region, said Ban Ki-Moon.
He also said the people of both provinces deserve a solution to the conflicts, to end suffering and displacement, and he hopes the meeting unifies the efforts of all the parties to turn reconstruction of Democratic Congo in reality, calling the international community to support these efforts.
The situation in the Democratic Congo eastern region was analyzed in the UN Security Council last week, and that authority demanded from all the groups under confrontation to lay down their weapons and immediately stop children recruitment.
The UN High Commissioner for Refugees denounced that 170,000 people have been forced to leave their homes in North Kivu since August, an amount that has exceeded 400,000 since 2006.