Council Condemns Targetting of Civilians and Peacekeepers by M23 in Eastern DRC

María Cristina Perceval, Permanent Representative of Argentina to the UN and President of the Security Council for the month of August, reads to journalists a Council press statement issued on 29 August condemning the resumption of fighting in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Council members condemned in the strongest terms the repeated and targeted attacks by the M23 against civilians and the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO), which have led to civilian casualties and loss of life, the death of a peacekeeper and the injury of several others, and damage to a MONUSCO ambulance.