UN Assistant Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations Hedi Annabi on Friday briefed Security Council members, meeting in closed consultations, on the postponed deployment of an expanded UN presence in the DRC. Earlier last week, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan decided to suspend the dispatching of a Tunisian support unit to the Kinshasa headquarters of the UN Mission in the DRC (MONUC), following the DRC government’s announcement that it would not permit armed UN troops in Kinshasa or any other city it controlled. The Security Council reiterated its call for all parties in the DRC to adhere to their peace commitments, and re-pledged its own support for the Lusaka peace process and the Kisangani Disengagement Plan. Annabi also told Council members of the “critical humanitarian problem” along the Ubangui and Congo rivers that form the DRC’s borders with the Republic of Congo and the Central African Republic.
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