Karel van Oosterom Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/karel-van-oosterom/ The low down on African affairs Thu, 04 Oct 2018 22:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i0.wp.com/jjcornish.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-Fountain_Pen_favicon-812.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Karel van Oosterom Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/karel-van-oosterom/ 32 32 UN Security Council ambassadors visit DRC https://jjcornish.com/2018/10/un-security-council-ambassadors-visit-drc/ Thu, 04 Oct 2018 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2018/10/un-security-council-ambassadors-visit-drc/ Members of the United Nations Security Council are spending the weekend in the Democratic Republic of Congo. They’re checking on conditions ahead of elections in that country scheduled for December 23. Ambassadors from the UN Security Council will spend their time in the Congolese capital Kinshasa. They’re due to see President Joseph Kabila and members […]

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]]> Members of the United Nations Security Council are spending the weekend in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

They’re checking on conditions ahead of elections in that country scheduled for December 23.

Ambassadors from the UN Security Council will spend their time in the Congolese capital Kinshasa.

They’re due to see President Joseph Kabila and members of the electoral commission.

They’ll also speak to role-players in the election which will be two-years late.

Dutch Ambassador Karel van Oosterom says they’re looking for a free, fair and transparent poll.

He’ll be joined by his counterparts from Bolivia, Equatorial Guinea, the United States and France.

Kabila, who is standing down, has called on the UN to withdraw its peacekeepers from his country. 

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