The UN Mission for Stabilization in Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO) is satisfied with Rwanda’s position on the use of drones within the borders Uganda, DRC and Rwanda.
“Today we know that all three countries are giving their agreements. So we will progress.”
“There are things that are not often in the public square, but we operate, “said Wednesday, January 23, the spokesman of MONUSCO, Madnodje Mounoubai during the weekly conference of the United Nations.
According to him the idea of putting UAVs on the borders of the DRC, Rwanda and Uganda dates five years ago.
Madnodje Mounoubai stressed, however, that it is the Department of UN Peacekeeping that manages the issue of determining the sending of the unmanned aircraft in the DRC.
Deputy Secretary General of the United Nations operations Peacekeeping, Hervé Ladsous, said Tuesday, Jan. 8 that MONUSCO plans to deploy drones to monitor eastern DRC.
This proposal was welcomed by France, the United States and the United Kingdom, but also by the Congolese government.
Rwanda was at first opposed saying it was premature to use drones in the borders of the eastern DRC. But the Head of State of Rwanda, Paul Kagame, recently said there see no objection.
President Paul Kagame told Press that he had no problem with the use surveillance drones in neighboring DR-Congo as proposed by the United Nations.
“If the U.N. thinks drones will help achieve peace, then “let them do it.” Kagame added that he doesn’t think Rwanda has the power to stop such a U.N. deployment.
Thursday, January 18, the head of MONUSCO, Roger Meece, said that the use of drones strengthens the capacity of peacekeepers and the Congolese army security challenges in Eastern DRC.
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