I spoke with Rwanda’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Olivier J.P. Nduhungirehe @onduhungirehe. We discussed the extensive cooperation between our nations and I briefed him on issues in the Middle East. I expressed our support for the continuation of dialogue that will bring peace to the Great Lakes region. 🇮🇱🇷🇼
I held two conversations this week with President Ramaphosa on the situation in Eastern DRC, including earlier today. What has been said about these conversations in the media by South African officials and President Ramaphosa himself contains a lot of distortion, deliberate attacks, and even lies. If words can change so much from a conversation to a public statement, it says a lot about how these very important issues are being managed.
A few important clarifications for the record:
1. The Rwanda Defence Force is an army, not a militia.
2. SAMIDRC is not a peacekeeping force, and it has no place in this situation. It was authorized by SADC as a belligerent force engaging in offensive combat operations to help the DRC Government fight against its own people, working alongside genocidal armed groups like FDLR which target Rwanda, while also threatening to take the war to Rwanda itself.
3. SAMIDRC displaced a true peacekeeping force, the East African Community Regional Force, and this contributed to the failure of the negotiation processes.
4. President Ramaphosa has never given a "warning" of any kind, unless it was delivered in his local language which I do not understand. He did ask for support to ensure the South African force has adequate electricity, food and water, which we shall help communicate.
5. President Ramaphosa confirmed to me that M23 did not kill the soldiers from South Africa, FARDC did.
6. If South Africa wants to contribute to peaceful solutions, that is well and good, but South Africa is in no position to take on the role of a peacemaker or mediator. And if South Africa prefers confrontation, Rwanda will deal with the matter in that context any day.
Good news: @RAEB_Rwanda & @nano_nuclear sign nuclear development deal: Nano Energy in partnership with the Cambridge Nuclear Energy Centre, will introduce educational & vocational opportunities for young Rwandans, in collaboration with Rwandan higher learning institutions, to build & maintain both SMRs and micro-reactors, as well as the supporting the country's nuclear energy infrastructure.
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Rwanda deplores the inflammatory & un-African statements made by Burundian President Evariste Ndayishimiye acting in his capacity as the African Union Champion for Youth, Peace and Security, in an event advertised under the banner of the @_AfricanUnion
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