To the US govt: Stop reading the Congolese political grid, through the outmoded French govt lenses USA-flagMr John Kerry Secretary of State State Department Washington D.C. USA Mr. Secretary of State, A word of caution addressed to the US government: Stop reading the Congolese political grid, kaleidoscope rather, through the outmoded French government lenses Reference the attached Press Statement by Jen Psaki Department Spokesperson, Washington, DC October 25, 2013 state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2013/10/215891.htm On behalf of the March 23 Movement, alias M23, the egregiously gallant Congolese Rebellion whose media image building and diplomatic representation is incumbent upon us, Rufari International reserves the right, and makes it a point of honorable duty, to make the following observations and injunctions to you, Mr. John Kerry in your respected capacity as the US Diplomat in chief, and through you to the President of the United States of America, the US Congress and the US government. • M23 is not just another “armed group”, watch it, Mr. Secretary of State and your US department of State staffers. Stop reading the Congolese political grid, kaleidoscope rather, through the outmoded French government lenses that have over decades grossly, dangerously and very treacherously perverted the perception and understanding of human, social, political and economic affairs in the interlacustrine region of Africa- Rwanda, D R Congo and Africa at large. • The March 23 Movement (M23) is the very honorable and gallant Congolese rebellion seeking to put Congo back on track as a subject of international law. The French government has treacherously been inducing the USA alongside the rest of the inattentive international community into mammoth error entailing genocide and massive manslaughter here and there (Rwanda, Congo etc…); disrupting international peace and security for decades running. Grave wrongdoing, massive violations of international law have ensued right from the time of the French government engineered 1994 genocide of Rwandan Tutsi folks, through the calamitous Turquoise bloody thing that has worked as the Pandora box casting doom over the D. R. Congo… to the legally inadmissible UN belligerence prescript in eastern Congo! • For reasons best known to themselves, the French government have, over the last twenty years, maliciously imparted the US government with malignant tales and treacherous fictions of sorts with respect to central African countries, and the US government has incredibly lent credence to French diplomats’ misrepresentations of D. R. Congo and Rwanda, and gone ahead to craft foreign policy on the basis thereof. This is an ominous trend that is unprecedented that is typically un-American to say the least, Mr. John Kerry. • The French government has been telling you out there that the M23 is “an armed group”, “a terrorist group”! This is wrong. We advise the US government to stop using the French lenses in their approach to affairs in this part of the world, and start finding out for themselves. The French bias is likely to ruin American-African partnerships, if care is not taken in time by the US government to shake it off. • Ambassador Samantha Power has just toured the Congo alongside other countries of the great lakes region of Africa. Will you please ask her if M23 is just another armed group? Is Ambassador Power not a privileged and very learned executive of the State department apart from being deployed to the UN in New York? • Do please render due honor to international law and the US government and people that you are supposed to be serving, by rightly referring to the m23 as the Congolese rebellion. Stop calling the m23 “an armed group”. We have the honor and privilege to reiterate the assurance of our highest esteem to you Mr. Secretary of State and through you to the President of the United States of America and the American people. Ntarugera Deo Koya Communication, political & diplomatic affairs consultant Rufari International Kigali Mail bag: 2995 Phone: +250 78 868 5751 p/o: Madame Lucie Divova Directress General Rufari International **************** Attachment: state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2013/10/215891.htm Diplomacy in Action Renewed Fighting in Eastern DRC Press Statement Jen Psaki Department Spokesperson Washington, DC October 25, 2013 The United States is deeply concerned by reports of renewed fighting between the M23 armed group and the armed forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) in eastern Congo, with reports of casualties and of hundreds of families forced to flee the area of the fighting. We are also troubled by reports that at least one round landed across the border in Rwanda. This fighting puts at risk the fragile peace negotiations in Kampala and risks undermining the concerted efforts earlier this week to reach a final agreement and peacefully resolve the conflict. We commend the actions of the UN peacekeeping mission in the DRC (MONUSCO) to protect civilians and urgently call on all parties to exercise restraint to prevent military escalation of the conflict. We specifically call on the M23 to commit to peacefully resolving the conflict by promptly signing a final agreement that provides for the disarmament and demobilization of the armed group and accountability for those responsible for the most serious human rights abuses. We commend the good faith efforts of the DRC government to negotiate a principled agreement and continue to call on all signatories of the Peace, Security, and Cooperation Framework to support such an agreement and to end all support to armed groups. We continue to believe that the best way forward for the Great Lakes region is to conclude the Kampala Talks in a manner that does not grant amnesty to the worst offenders and to utilize the Framework peace process to focus on the root causes of the crisis in the DRC, including through expanded dialogue among signatory states. PRN: 2013/1295
Posted on: Tue, 05 Nov 2013 00:59:47 +0000
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