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Kagame reiterates security concerns.

President Paul Kagame has reiterated that Rwandan troops are in the DRC for security reasons. Addressing a joint press conference with visiting Malawian President Bakili Muluzi, Kagame again denied his country had been plundering Congo’s natural resources, as stated in a report by a UN panel of experts. “There have been accusations about human rights violations in eastern Congo. There have been accusations about plundering Congo’s wealth,” he said, according to Rwandan radio. “As far as I am concerned, true or not true, these are secondary. The main reason for our being in the Congo has to do with security concerns for our country.” “Congo became a sanctuary to the forces that threaten our security and maybe other people’s security,” he stated. “That remains the problem.” He said once this problem was addressed and foreign troops which should be pulling out, remained in the Congo, “then you really start suspecting that they are there for something else”.

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