The UN Secretary General expressed “outrage” at the death of two people after the organization’s peacekeepers were shot at a border post with Uganda, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (RDCongo).
António Guterres “highlights in the strongest terms the need to establish responsibility for these events” and supports “the arrest of the military personnel involved in this incident and the immediate investigation,” the secretary-general’s deputy spokesman said in a statement. General Farhan Haq.
A column of the so-called “blue helmets” of the United Nations opened fire today at a border post between the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda. The incident left at least two dead and more than a dozen injured.
Present in DRCongo since 1999, Monuc (UN Mission in DRCongo), which became MONUSCO (UN Mission for Stabilization in DRCongo) with the evolution of its mandate in 2010, is considered one of the most large and expensive, with an annual budget of one billion dollars (about 980 million euros, at current exchange rates).
The UN mission currently has more than 14,000 “blue helmets”.
Source: Observadora
