DR CONGO: UN VOICES CONCERN AS FIGHTING RESUMES BETWEEN GOVERNMENT AND M23 FORCES

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DR CONGO: UN VOICES CONCERN AS FIGHTING RESUMES BETWEEN GOVERNMENT AND
M23 FORCESNew York, May 20 2013 2:00PMThe United Nations peacekeeping
mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) today voiced its
concern about renewed clashes between rebels from the 23 March
Movement (M23) and the national armed forces in the eastern city of
Goma.

Fighting broke out early this morning in Kibati and Rusayo, some 12
kilometres from Goma, the capital of North Kivu province, according to
the UN Organization Stabilization Mission in DRC (MONUSCO).

"The Mission reports that initial skirmishes escalated to the use of
heavy calibre weapons, mortars and rocket launchers," UN spokesperson
Eduardo del Buey told reporters in New York.

MONUSCO added that, according to reports, the Congolese national armed
forces (FARDC) used attack helicopters in one of their operations.

"MONUSCO has expressed its concerns about this incident and the
mission is actively pursuing a diplomatic and political solution to
contain and end the clashes," said Mr. del Buey.

Last November the M23 – made up of former members of the FARDC who
mutinied in April 2012 – occupied Goma. Clashes between the Government
and rebels displaced more than 130,000 people in and around the city
and sent another 47,000 fleeing to neighbouring South Kivu province.
Amidst widespread condemnation and calls for their withdrawal, the M23
fighters pulled out after 11 days.

In the wake of those events, the Security Council in March authorized
the deployment of an intervention brigade within MONUSCO to carry out
targeted offensive operations, with or without the Congolese national
army, against armed groups that threaten peace in eastern DRC. A
contingent of Tanzanian soldiers arrived Goma earlier this month as
part of the brigade.

Tensions have been heightened in the region recently as the M23
publicly decried the deployment of the intervention brigade and broke
off the so-called Kampala peace talks with the DRC Government.

The latest clashes come just weeks after the UN Envoy for Africa's
Great Lakes Region, Mary Robinson, reported that there are encouraging
signs that the new push for peace in the DRC can succeed.

"There is a fresh chance to do more than just attend to the
consequences of conflict, or to manage crises of the kind seen again
most recently last November. There is a chance to resolve its
underlying causes and to stop it for good," she told a closed door
session of the Security Council earlier this month via video
teleconference.

Mrs. Robinson cautioned that success was not guaranteed, "we can be
sure that if it fails, the consequences will be grave." The briefing
followed a week-long visit to the region to follow up on the
UN-brokered Peace, Security and Cooperation Framework for the
Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Region, or as she describes
it, a "framework for hope."

The Framework, adopted in February with the support of 11 nations and
four international organizations (11+4), aims to end the cycles of
conflict and crisis in the eastern DRC and to build peace in the
long-troubled region.May 20 2013 2:00PM
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