UN calls for written security guarantees

The UN has called on the DRC government to provide written security guarantees ensuring freedom of movement for a UN technical survey team currently in the country. “None of the scheduled visits have taken place because of the refusal by the DRC to provide written security guarantees and freedom of movement by UN personnel to previously proposed sites,” a UN spokesman said. The UN intended to press for these conditions at a meeting of the Joint Military Commission (JMC) in Lusaka on Sunday. Sources in Kinshasa confirmed to IRIN that the necessary guarantees had not been received for the technical survey team, although two military liaison officers - based outside DRC - had travelled to parts of eastern DRC.