Bizimungu says security fundamental issue

Rwandan President Pasteur Bizimungu, who is attending the UN session, said if the international community could guarantee his country’s security, it would pull out of the DRC. He told journalists in New York that security was the fundamental problem, and the international community had come to realise that disarming the Interahamwe and ex-FAR was crucial. According to a UN account of the press conference, he said these groups should be denied the possibility of support from the DRC government. Physically disarming the groups would not be difficult, he added. They were very good at killing civilians, but apart from their handling of arms, he had not seen any other examples of their brilliance, Bizimungu was reported as saying.