Democratic Republic of the Congo
During Foreign Office Quesitons in the House of Commons, Brooks Newmark asks what pressure is being put on the DRC Government to disarm the Hutus.
Mr. Brooks Newmark (Braintree) (Con): What pressure is being brought to bear on the DRC Government to disarm the Hutus, who are responsible for the massacre of the 800,000 Tutsis in Rwanda?
David Miliband: Eleven hundred FDLR-Democratic Liberation Forces of Rwanda-troops have been disarmed and repatriated to Rwanda. That is an important step forward, but everybody who meets President Kabila emphasises that it is only that-a first step. When we talk of his fulfilling his responsibilities under the Nairobi agreement, it is precisely the disarmament and repatriation of the FDLR that is at the heart of his responsibility.
