Excellencies, Heads of States and Government;
Your Excellency Ban Ki-moon, UN Secretary General;
Your Excellency Dr. Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma, Chairperson of the African Union Commission;
Executive Secretaries of SADC and ICGLR;
Ladies and Gentlemen:
I thank you Mr. Secretary General and Madam Chairperson for convening this first meeting of the Regional Oversight Mechanism of the Peace, Security and Cooperation Framework for the DRC and Region we signed on February 24th, 2013. Tanzania welcomes your joint efforts which will go a long way towards ensuring that the objectives of the Framework are implemented to the letter and spirit.
I commend you Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon for appointing Mrs. Mary Robinson to be your Special Envoy for the Great Lakes Region. This is a clear testimony of the seriousness that you and the UN attach to attainment of peace and stability in the DRC and the Great Lakes Region. I have no doubt in my mind that she will add value to the efforts being deployed to find durable peace in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. I pray that she will use her long experience and renowned diplomatic skills to enable the people of the DRC and the Great Lakes Region realise their long standing dream of a peaceful and stable country and the region. I assure Madam Robinson my personal commitment as well as my Government’s readiness to work with her in fulfilling her mandate.
Excellencies;
We all know that the Framework we signed in February this year (2013) provides another important milestone in the search for durable peace in the DRC and her neighbours and the region at large. The launching of the Regional Oversight Mechanism, the establishment of the Technical Support Committee and the creation by the UNSC of the Force Intervention Brigade under MONUSCO are important milestones in these endeavours.
I amconfident, all these measures will go a long way towards bringing about lasting peace in Eastern DRC. But, the success of these efforts will depend on the genuine commitment and readiness of the parties to see peace reign if they have at heart the belief and desire for peaceful solutions to this long standing conflict which has infected great misery and suffering to millions of innocent people. Unfortunately, it is the women, children and innocent civilians who suffer the most.
I amconfident, all these measures will go a long way towards bringing about lasting peace in Eastern DRC. But, the success of these efforts will depend on the genuine commitment and readiness of the parties to see peace reign if they have at heart the belief and desire for peaceful solutions to this long standing conflict which has infected great misery and suffering to millions of innocent people. Unfortunately, it is the women, children and innocent civilians who suffer the most.
Excellencies;
It is evident that the barrel of the gun cannot bethe ultimate answer as testified by the recurrence of fighting. We must deploy serious efforts towards bringing the parties to the negotiating table. Only the negotiating table will deliver on the demands of all the conflicting parties. I am hoping that this Mechanism will deploy serious efforts towards initiating comprehensive negotiations. Fi
I am of the view that the enlargement of MONUSCO and the deployment of Intervention Brigade to play a dissuading role will not end the war. Ultimately, and comprehensive and lasting peace will be realised at the negotiating table. Let us give serious attention to peace talks. Let the Mechanism support the process in Kampala. Time has come to reach out to FDLR, ADF and other negative forces with the view to ending the circle of violence.
I also welcome the establishment of a Technical Support Committee to develop benchmarks and ensure day – to – day monitoring and reporting on the implementation of the Framework. The activities of these processes should be well coordinated to create a synergy and energy that will push the peace agenda of the region to fruition.
Excellencies;
Once again, I commend the UN Secretary General and the AU Chairperson for supporting theregional Oversight Mechanism and the Technical Support Committee to be established. I sincerely hope that these two structures will be fully supportedby the region and international stakeholders. I am confident that through our commitment and support the pursuit of peace negotiations in the DRC, herneighbours and the region will attain the much sought and elusive commodity: namely, peace on its hands. It can be done. Let us play our part.
Thank you for your attention.
yaani hii statement ndio iliowakasirisha wa Rwanda??? Mbona alichosema hapo kina pointi!! I stand by my Commander in Chief, the barrel of the gun is not the ultimate answer indeed!!! Huwa namfagilia Kagame kwenye maendeleo ila katika hili niko na JK.
ReplyDeleteEh, hii hotuba imewashangaza Wanyarwanda eti waongee na magaidi wa FDLR, watu ambao walisababisha mauaji ya kimbari. Wanaona kama JK kapoteza muelekeo kabisa na wengine wanadai awatakie radhi Wanyarwanda.
ReplyDeleteHili sakata halijaishia hapa kwa kweli, lakini mimi binafsi sioni kama kuna ubaya wowote na sidhani JK ameshauri wakae chini - alichosema ni labda imefikia wakati mzuri hawa magaidi walio pembezoni waitwe na washirikishwe katika kutatua swala hili la DRC mashariki. Na sidhani kama ni kitu kibaya kwani pia ni Tanzania tuu katika EAC iliyopeleka wanajeshi wa kulinda amani, sasa watu wanataka vijana wetu tuu wafe katika limgogoro ambalo halituhusu wa Tanzania?
JK did not suggest outrightly that Rwanda hold talks FDLR, why hullabalo in Kigali? Why did foreign minister attack JK? The suggestion to reach out to these negative forces and end violence. Rwanda behaves like a cry baby
ReplyDeleteRwanda should behave like a State.....sio kila siku wanalia lia tu......wakiambiwa kitu ambacho hawapendi kukiskia wanapiga kelele.....they should grow, at least seam to be growing
ReplyDeleteMaoni ya Mh Rais ni sahihi kabisa, ni katika muktadha ule ule wa kusema Afrika itatatua na kusuluhisha migogoro yake wenyewe na sio ICC basi na swala la usalama katika nchi za maziwa makuu ni hjukumu la wale wote wanaosababisha nhci hizi kutokua na utulivu, mazungumzo ni jambo kubwa after all hata Kagame anatuhumiwa kwa mauaji maana mauaji ya kimbari yanaongelea watutsi tu, hata wa hutu walikufa vile vile na ni muhimu haya yakazungumzwa.
ReplyDeletenchi hizi hazitakua za kwanza kufanya hivyo Afrika ya kusini ilifanya mazungumzo baina ya wazungu na waafrika na nchi hiyo imebaki na inaendelea so its the leaders of all the groups in the great lakes whether in power or not Nchi kwanza not mtu
NAONA KUNA LINGINE HAPA SIO HUU USHAURI, kAGAME ANAJULIKANA KWA ROHO MBAYA YA KINYONGO NA VISASI HANA JEMA ALILELEWA NA KUKULIA UGANDA AKASAIDIWA NA HAO HAO MPAKA AKAINGIA MADARAKANI LAKINI MNAJUA ALIVOMGEUKA M7, NA SIO HUYO TU HATA MARAFIKI ZAKE WA KARIBU NDUGU NA JAMAA ZAKE WANAMJUA NA KUMTAMBUA ALIVYO NA ROHO MBAYA YA KINGYONGO NA VISASI ANATAKA LAKE NDO LISIMAME TU SIKU ZOTE
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