The
President of the United Nations Security Council
said Wednesday that last week's murder of six relief
workers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
(DRC) hoped that the perpetrators would be caught
and brought to justice..
"We
will be following this and hoping that those who can
are engaged in finding the people responsible and holding
them accountable," Council President James Cunningham
of the United States told the reporters Wednesday after
the Council heard a briefing by Hedi Annabi, the UN's
Assistant Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations.
The six workers from the International Committee
of the Red Cross (ICRC) were killed on April
26 on the road between Djugu and Fataki in
the northeast of the country, some 40 miles
north of Bunia. They had been on their way
to deliver medicines to a health center in
the area.
"This is a subject of great interest
to the Council and it has obvious connections
to what we are trying to achieve in the Congo," said
Cunningham. "We'll keep this on our agenda
and, as I told the Secretariat and the Council
members, it's something that we should not
forget. We should try to follow this up and
see that some measure of justice is done."
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