Rwanda calls a Canadian export permit, a business suspension over the war in Congo ‘shamefully’
Rwanda said on Tuesday that the position of Canada about the conflict in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo was “shameful”, adding that the measures that Ottawa had announced against Kigali would not resolve the conflict.
Late on Monday, Canada announced that she suspended the issuance of licenses for export of controlled goods and technology in Rwanda, as well as suspending in search of business and trade missions with new government with Rwand, and support for the activities of the private sector business development.
She also announced that in the future she would re -examine the participation of the Canadian government at international events hosting Rwanda in the future.
Canada joins the European Union and the United Kingdom, and both have also announced plans to suspend the bilateral help of Rwanda. The US also announced sanctions against James Kabarebe, State Minister for Foreign Affairs in Rwanda.
The rebel group under the leadership of the M23 entered Tutsa entered the city of Gom at the end of January and has since made unprecedented progress into the eastern Congo, capturing the territory and receiving access to valuable minerals.
Their current attack, which began at the end of December, is already the most difficult escalation of the long -standing conflict of rooted in the overflowing of the Rwande Congo Genocide in 1994 and the struggle for the control of huge mineral resources of Congo.
Congo, the UN -AI experts accuse Rwanda of Western forces of supporting the group.
8:33Why did the M23 rebels support M23 seized the two largest cities of the Congo
Carleton Professor Evelyn Namukula thinks of what happened in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo in less than a month, as the rebels supported by M23 seized two strategically important cities, Bukava and Gom. What all this means for Civille.
Rwanda denies this and says that he is defending himself against militia under the guidance of ethnic Hutu bent for slaughtering Tutsis in Congo and the threat of Rwanda.
On Monday, Canadian Foreign Affairs, International Development and Promotion of Exports, Ministers of International Trade and Economic Development repeated charges against Rwanda while announced by suspensions.
