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The DRC's representative to the UN on Monday questioned the Security Council's sincerity about deploying peacekeeping troops in his country. "You either go to the Democratic Republic of the Congo to bring peace and stop the suffering, the misery, death and desolation in the country, or you simply let them die," Andre Mwanba Kapanga said at a press conference at UN Headquarters. "I think, so far, the Council has chosen the latter," he stated, according to a UN account of the briefing. Kapanga said UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan should already have made a decision to send UN observers to areas where no combat was taking place, and he urged Annan not to hold the deployment process "hostage to technical or administrative difficulties."
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