Macron urges Rwanda to end support for DR Congo M23 rebels, withdraw troops

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00:00United is the word. The two presidents appeared during this joint conference

00:04very much with the same goal and that is to put an end to the years of violence,

00:10nearly three decades of ongoing violence, targeting very often civilians in the

00:15North Kiva region, the mineral-rich area of the Democratic Republic of Congo. But

00:21for the first time, President Macron actually condemned loud and clear

00:26Rwanda, saying he has been in contact with Paul Kagame, the president of

00:30Rwanda. He expressed the need for Rwanda to withdraw its troops from North Kivu

00:37and this much to the delight of course of the President Tshisekedi

00:42from the Democratic Republic of Congo. And President Macron basically said they

00:48cannot be a double standard in Europe, just like in Africa. In other words, a

00:54territorial integrity must be respected, must be a safeguarded. Rwanda needs to

01:00pull out its troops of North Kivu and also President Macron said that all

01:05militias needed to disarm. This regardless of which side they are

01:10fighting for, which side they are supporting. So very much the same message

01:15from those two presidents with North Kivu, the desperate situation there, of

01:20course, at the heart of discussions today.

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