The Deputy Secretary-General, Head of the UN Peacekeeping Operations, will begin a five-day visit to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) on 14 December. Jean-Pierre Lacroix will make status with Monusco.
as reported from New York, Carrie Nooten
It was a visit planned for several weeks, postponed due to a quarantine by Jean-Pierre Lacroix, one of the regular visits to the DRC by the head of the UN peacekeeping operations. Arriving on the evening of December 13, he was to spend two days in Kinshasa, before going east of the country, in northern Kivu and Ituri, for three days.
See where Monusco is
On the program: see where MONUSCO is, the UN mission whose mandate will be renewed on Friday 18 December, but also have direct discussions with staff and the law. Jean-Pierre Lacroix will also meet with NGOs, other members of civil society and displaced persons, while the transition to the UN mission, which has 18,000 men, will of course be at the heart of the concerns.
Political crisis
He is temporarily arriving in the Democratic Republic of Congo in the midst of a political crisis, although the situation has calmed down in recent days. The UN Secretary-General will meet as usual with President Félix Tshisekedi; on the other hand, he will not meet former President Joseph Kabila, the latter in Kolwesi. But he will meet again with the leaders of the Common Front of the Congo (FCC), the long Kabila platform, which was at the heart of the unrest this week.
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