Brussels, 30/08/2012 (Agence Europe) - Appalled by the evidence that Rwanda is implicated in the conflict in eastern Congo, EURAC, a European Network of Active NGOs in Central Africa, calls on the European Union and its member states to withhold their budget support to Rwanda. It welcomes the fact that some member states (Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden and the United Kingdom) and the African Development Bank have already decided to impose a temporary freeze on this kind of aid.
EURAC's call was made on 24 August after publication by the United Nations Security Council of the interim report by a group of experts on the Democratic Republic of Congo (S: 2012/348) and an addendum providing substantiated evidence of Rwanda's support to armed groups in DRC, including the M23. After analysing the report and the Rwandan government's response, which challenges some parts of the report arguing that they are false and biased, EURAC considers it hardly likely that the addendum is either wrong or falsified. (AN/transl.jl)