DRC asks UN to meet on Rwanda

2008-10-10 12:31

Geneva - The Democratic Republic of Congo said on Thursday it has asked the UN Security Council to call an emergency meeting on what it described as an incursion into its territory by government forces from neighbouring Rwanda.

Congolese Foreign Minister Antipas Mbusa Nyamwisi made the charge of a Rwandan incursion after Congo forces came under repeated attack from Tutsi rebels led by renegade Genersl Laurent Nkunda in the border province of North Kivu.

Congo's UN Ambassador Ileka Atoki sent a letter to the Security Council requesting the meeting and told Reuters it might take place later on Thursday.

Rwanda denied the attacks, but Atoki said Congo had hard proof that Rwandan government forces had been on his country's soil.

"We have captured some Rwandan soldiers," Atoki said, adding that his government would soon show them to the media.

In his letter to the council, Atoki asked the Security Council to condemn the Rwandan action and demand the unconditional and immediate withdrawal of its troops from Congo's territory.

- Reuters