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00:00 Monsieur le President, vraiment, je vous remercie for allowing me...
00:14 I won't be able to continue in French, but I thought I needed to start with that one.
00:25 First of all, I'm thankful for the President providing this opportunity for me and my delegation
00:38 and the Rwandans to be able to be here to express our solidarity and also a sense of
00:55 strong partnership that exists anywhere between our two countries, but also in this context
01:05 of giving you, President, and the people of DRC and particularly of Goma, our condolences
01:16 for those who lost their lives during the recent volcanic eruption and those who also
01:27 stand with those who were displaced or affected in any other way by the volcanic eruption.
01:41 Also want to thank the President for allowing this closeness of our people that already
01:49 exists in fact and has existed for many years to be given a new impetus, a new force to
02:01 take place.
02:04 So that's really why I'm here, that's why I'm happy to be here, and I also thank the
02:09 President, President Felix Sikeri, of this great country for having paid us a visit yesterday
02:20 and both yesterday and today we have had a good opportunity to have broad and productive
02:30 exchanges that will benefit our two countries.
02:35 And as we saw, we signed a number of agreements.
02:43 I believe this is just the beginning.
02:45 There are many areas that we are going to come to in which we can cooperate to build
02:53 a solid relationship but also basis for cooperation between our two countries.
03:02 What we see today, first, President Sikeri put a sense of urgency to the problem of security
03:20 and instability that have been going on for many years.
03:29 The sense of urgency is to be seen in, therefore, that action which you referred to of having
03:41 a state of emergency in the region that has been affected not only just recently but for
03:49 a long time in the past.
03:53 A state of emergency really in itself is a message that this is a serious matter that
03:59 has to be dealt with and I think he did right to do that.
04:07 So you're also right that it is not just about declaring a sense of emergency, it has to
04:16 be followed by a number of actions that, therefore, are aimed at dealing with the problem itself.
04:29 I will come to that.
04:32 But before I do, let me say that the lack of security and peace and the instability
04:43 that have characterized either this part of DRC or our own country, Rwanda, in its history
04:55 and continuing to grapple with making sure that we come to create stability in our own
05:06 country and you cannot have stability in your own country if a neighboring country, a brotherly
05:13 country doesn't have stability.
05:19 But both of us agree, President Chisehede and myself, that lack of security and peace
05:29 and instability cannot be things that are going to be permanent in both of our countries.
05:43 Neither should this be a situation that we come to get used to and live with as a normal
05:55 way of living our lives.
05:58 So something must be done.
06:01 And it starts with what the president decided and also what is going to be the follow-on
06:08 actions that I am sure have already started of actually dealing with the root causes of
06:17 this instability, dealing with the groups that cause instability in this region.
06:28 And it is going to be much better if, therefore, all of us work together.
06:38 Rwanda can make its own contribution as of the situation itself, but also what will be
06:49 decided by the Democratic Republic of Congo within its sovereign rights.
07:03 It works with people from anywhere, neighbors and beyond, to deal with whatever problems
07:10 that affect us.
07:12 So this cooperation we are emphasizing, the two leaders, goes in that direction.
07:19 It's saying what can you give, what can you take in this area of cooperation so that ultimately
07:30 we have our people, both Congolese and Rwandese, working together, working towards fighting
07:43 the common challenges, our enemies, so that we really move towards development that we
07:53 are--.
07:54 So Rwanda is ready to provide or associate ourselves with the RAC in whatever form within
08:06 our means towards this challenge.
08:14 Therefore, these are things we don't necessarily discuss publicly in the media until we have
08:26 really worked on them and planned.
08:29 I'm only talking about the readiness, first of all, that is there for the two countries
08:34 to cooperate.
08:35 So this readiness on our part to play our part whichever way we have to address the
08:43 problem.
08:44 If it is anything originating from Rwanda, I'm happy to and ready to solicit the support
08:53 of the RAC and the president to make the contribution that can enable us to address any problem.
09:01 So it is both ways.
09:04 It is two ways.
09:05 And we have the means, we have the knowledge about our problems, we have the will to cooperate.
09:13 I don't see how we can fail.
09:16 And we don't want to fail our people.
09:21 The people of the RAC or the people of Rwanda, as the president said, have waited for too
09:27 long to have some of these challenges addressed.
09:33 So we are up to the job and we will do our part.
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