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STORY: UN / GREAT LAKES REGION
TRT: 03:45
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGES: FRENCH / ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 13 OCTOBER 2025, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE - NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, UN Headquarters
13 OCTOBER 2025, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, Security Council
3. SOUNDBITE (French) Huang Xia, Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for the Great Lakes region, United Nations:
“Significant progress has been recorded on the diplomatic front. Thus, a real hope has arisen for the establishment of a ceasefire, which would open the way toward a lasting and definitive settlement of the conflict in the east of the DRC. First of all, American facilitation made it possible, on June 27 in Washington, to sign a Peace Agreement between the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Rwanda.”
4. Wide shot, Security Council
5. SOUNDBITE (French) Huang Xia, Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for the Great Lakes region, United Nations:
“While all these African and international peace efforts are commendable and promising, they have, to this day, not lived up to their promises: the agreed ceasefire is not being respected. After a brief lull, the parties to the conflict have strengthened their positions and resumed military operations. The humanitarian situation remains catastrophic.”
6. Wide shot, Security Council
7. SOUNDBITE (French) Huang Xia, Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for the Great Lakes region, United Nations:
“The alarming situation on the ground, marked by a shift of the front lines toward South Kivu, poses the risk of a regional flare-up that would annihilate all the peace efforts made.”
8. Wide shot, Security Council
9. SOUNDBITE (French) Huang Xia, Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for the Great Lakes region, United Nations:
“I call upon those most directly concerned — namely, the brotherly countries of the region — to resume direct and frank dialogue, and to take all necessary measures to put an end to this war once and for all.”
10. Wide shot, Security Council
11. SOUNDBITE (French) Zenon Ngay Mukongo, Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC):
“The cessation of hostilities, the withdrawal of Rwandan troops, the end of their support for the M23, and the restoration of Congolese state authority over all occupied areas constitute non-negotiable conditions for genuine peace. Mr. President, with regard to the illegal exploitation of my country’s natural resources, my government reiterates its call for the establishment of a mechanism similar to the Kimberley Process to manage gold originating from conflict zones, in order to put an end to this parallel economy that fuels violence.”
12. Wide shot, Security Council
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Ernest Rwamucyo, Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Rwanda:
“All I'm doing here, distinguished members of the Council, is to reiterate that there is an agreement between our two countries that we made within our sovereign competencies, helped by the United States, and Qatar continues to help, the African Union continues to help. We need your support, and we need you to give us the chance to implement the agreement as it is, and not to intervene in a way that may complicate that process or create deviations.”
14. Wide shot, Security Council
UN Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for the Great Lakes region Huang Xia said that the agreed ceasefire between the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Rwanda “is not being respected.”
Addressing the Security Council today (13 Oct), Huang Xia said, “Significant progress has been recorded on the diplomatic front. Thus, a real hope has arisen for the establishment of a ceasefire, which would open the way toward a lasting and definitive settlement of the conflict in the east of the DRC. First of all, American facilitation made it possible, on June 27 in Washington, to sign a Peace Agreement between the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Rwanda.”
He noted, “While all these African and international peace efforts are commendable and promising, they have, to this day, not lived up to their promises: the agreed ceasefire is not being respected. After a brief lull, the parties to the conflict have strengthened their positions and resumed military operations. The humanitarian situation remains catastrophic.”
He warned, “The alarming situation on the ground, marked by a shift of the front lines toward South Kivu, poses the risk of a regional flare-up that would annihilate all the peace efforts made.”
He then called upon “those most directly concerned — namely, the brotherly countries of the region — to resume direct and frank dialogue, and to take all necessary measures to put an end to this war once and for all.”
Zenon Ngay Mukongo, DRC Permanent Representative to the United Nations, said, “The cessation of hostilities, the withdrawal of Rwandan troops, the end of their support for the M23, and the restoration of Congolese state authority over all occupied areas constitute non-negotiable conditions for genuine peace. Mr. President, with regard to the illegal exploitation of my country’s natural resources, my government reiterates its call for the establishment of a mechanism similar to the Kimberley Process to manage gold originating from conflict zones, in order to put an end to this parallel economy that fuels violence.”
Ernest Rwamucyo, Permanent Representative of Rwanda reiterated that, “there is an agreement between our two countries that we made within our sovereign competencies, helped by the United States, and Qatar continues to help, the African Union continues to help. We need your support, and we need you to give us the chance to implement the agreement as it is, and not to intervene in a way that may complicate that process or create deviations.”
