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reintegration in Ituri Kinshasa, DR Congo, 13 April 2005: To date, exactly 10,022 (ten thousand and twenty-two) militiamen have been disarmed and have entered into the transit sites protected by MONUC, in the context of the disarmament and community-based reintegration (DCR) process specifically…

Security Council 5162nd Meeting (PM) SC/8358 In Presidential Statement, Council Also Calls on FDLR 'To Turn Their Positive Works into Action' by Handing over All Arms to UN Mission The Security Council this morning welcomed the statement issued by the Forces démocratiques de libération du Rwanda…

Press Release * Original in French MONUC / PIO / PR /16 / 2005 Kinshasa, R.D. Congo, 11 April 2005: MONUC was informed, this past weekend, of an incident in which the police in Kinshasa arrested two international civilian employees of U.N. Mission, one of them a United Nations volunteer (UNV)…

Press Release * Original in French MONUC / PIO / PR /15 / 2005 Kinshasa, R.D. Congo, 11 April 2005: MONUC congratulates the authorities of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) for the arrest in Bunia, Ituri District, Eastern Congo, on Saturday, 9 April 2005, of Mr. Mandro Kahwa, also known as…

Press Release * Original in French MONUC / PIO / PR /14 / 2005 Kinshasa, R.D. Congo, 4 April 2005: The new Force Commander of MONUC, Lieutenant-General Babacar Gaye of Senegal, took office in Kinshasa on 4 April 2005. He will serve as the commander in chief of MONUC troops. Born on 31 January 1951…

* Original in French MONUC / PIO / PR /11 / 2005 MONUC expresses readiness to facilitate their return to Rwanda. Kinshasa, DRC, 31 March 2005: Civilian and military leaders of Rwandan armed groups in the DRC territory (FDLR) have issued a statement expressing their intention to stop their armed…

*Original in French MONUC / PIO / PR /12 / 2005 Kinshasa, DRC, 1st April 2005: MONUC underlines that the Security Council has unanimously adopted Resolution 1592 dated 30 March 2005. MONUC interprets the unanimous resolution that extends its mandate until October 1st, 2005, as a clear sign that the…

Press Release * Original in French MONUC / PIO / PR /10 /2005 Kinshasa, D.R. Congo, 31 March 2005: MONUC stresses that, contrary to wrong interpretations published this morning by some newspapers in Kinshasa, it will not extend its deadline for the disarmament of the Ituri militiamen. Militiamen and…

During the past week, the UN Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUC) has noted that a growing and significant number of militiamen in the Ituri district, in the country?s north-east, presented themselves spontaneously to UN peacekeepers in order to hand in their weapons and enter the…

As previously announced, MONUC's Ituri Brigade continues ' at a sustained tempo ' its 'Cordon and Search' operations aimed at neutralizing militiamen, reducing their capacity for nuisance, forcing them into flight or retreat and cutting off their sources of illegal revenues as well as their weapons…

This Friday 11 March 2005, at about 4 o'clock local time (GMT + 2), MONUC Ituri Brigade launched a Cordon and Search operation in Penyi, situated approximately 30 kilometres east of Bunia. The operation was jointly conducted by four companies ' approximately 600 peacekeepers ' of the South African…

Press Release /MONUC-PID 03/2005 This morning, at about 9:20 (local time), two foot patrols (21 elements altogether) of the Bangladeshi contingent of MONUC were ambushed 5 kilometres west of Kafe, in the district of Ituri, by one of the armed groups that refuse the disarmament and community-based…