France is seeking Western support for the UN Security Council resolution, which is behind Rwanda’s name behind the M23 rebel group attacks inside the Democratic Republic of Congo, including some parts of Goma, the largest city of East DRC Including the occupation.
Rwanda’s 4,000 soldiers are protecting M23 rebels, UN officials said. UN Secretary -General, Antonio Guterres, on Sunday called on Rwanda’s defense forces to stop supporting M23 and withdraw from the DRC soil. It was the most clear statement of Rwanda’s responsibility for most violence.
But practical steps are not being made open yet to isolate Rwanda President Paul Kagama. Similar restrictions in the past, especially in 2012, forced Rwanda to retreat when aid was reduced.
The UN statement prepared at the end of the Security Council emergency meeting on Sunday called for the withdrawal of “external forces” without clearly naming Rwanda. However, it cited a report by a UN expert that highlighted the systematic presence of Rwanda’s forces in the DRC.
French Ambassador to the United Nations Nicholas de Ravier called on the UN Security Council that Rwanda’s actions are a serious threat to regional peace and security. “It’s time to call the cat a cat,” he said, the way the international community was surrounded the issue of Rwanda’s role in armed M23 for various reasons. The United Kingdom and the United States also named Rwanda in its intervention in the United Nations on Sunday and called for withdrawal from Kagam.
Britain, France and the United States are reluctant to impose sanctions on the Kagama.
Britain depended on Rwanda’s goodwill when it signed an agreement to accept asylum seekers for Rwanda, but the scheme ended due to legal and political objections. France is grateful to Rwanda for the policing of both former French colonies, both the Central African Republic and Mali. The European Union signed a mineral agreement with Rwanda in 2023. The United States has rarely seen Africa as a diplomatic priority, and one of the first steps of its new President Donald Trump was to freeze all the continent’s aid.
Nevertheless, Rwanda will be at risk of returning an integrated aid, as one -third of Rwanda’s budget depends on foreign aid.
Kenyan President William Roto is trying to fill the diplomatic space by calling an extraordinary summit of the East African community within 48 hours on Monday. He insisted that the President of the DRC, Félix Tshisekeedi, and Kagame would attend, but it has not been confirmed.
Some countries, especially Russia and China, are willing to issue a general call for patience. Russia says the conflict has its roots in the colonial system, a comprehensive criticism that analyzes most of Western measures in Africa.
Talking to the Security Council, the Foreign Minister of the DRC, Thirty -Thirty -three Kaikamba Wagner, rejected any lessons in history, rather than on the United Nations on Kagam, including the economic and economic and economic minerals on all labels in Rwanda. Political sanctions. He accused Rwanda of “Declaration War, and no longer hiding behind diplomatic tricks”, adding that “it is clear that the crisis is directly related to the economic looting of our country through Rwanda”.
DRC diplomats are disappointed because reports by UN experts say that Rwanda DRC is robbing mineral wealth. Rwanda diplomats repeatedly denied that if he had a presence in the DRC, the reason was that he had the right to protect the Congo’s Tawashi community against the rebels.
Uruguay and South African ambassadors, whose peacekeepers were recently killed by M23 forces, appealed to the Security Council to protect UN troops.
