Congo-Kinshasa: UN Envoy Heads to Kinshasa to Promote Regional Peace Accord

14 February 2014

Great Lakes envoy Mary Robinson is in the Kinshasa, capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, calling on authorities to fulfil their commitments to achieve lasting peace, as the United Nations peacekeeping mission in the DRC is due to visit alleged massacre sites in the restive eastern part of the vast country.

Mrs. Robinson, the Secretary-General's Special Envoy for the Great Lakes Region has been meeting the past two days with President Joseph Kabila and other Government officials in the DRC on implementation of national commitments to the Peace, Security and Cooperation Framework - signed by 11 nations in February 2013.

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