Britain 'may need to send troops to Congo'

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Britain 'may need to send troops to Congo'

By Gavin Cordon, PA Independent
Saturday, 1 November 2008

Britain may need to send troops to the war-torn Democratic Republic of Congo if diplomatic efforts to find a solution to the crisis fail, a Foreign Office minister warned today.

Lord Malloch-Brown said that the UK and other European powers could not stand back if the fighting between government and rebel forces erupted again.

His comments came as Foreign Secretary David Miliband and his French counterpart Bernard Kouchner were embarking on a joint mission to the region to try to bring the warring parties together.

Lord Malloch-Brown said that while the priority was to find a diplomatic solution, contingency plans were being drawn up for the deployment of an EU force to bolster United Nations peacekeepers.

"We have certainly got to have it as an option which is developed and on the table if we need it," he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.


"The first line of call on this should be the deployment of the UN's own troops from elsewhere in the country.

"But we have got to have plans. If everything else fails we cannot stand back and watch violence erupt.

"Britain is currently the so-called standby country which would indeed need to contribute.

Prime Minister Gordon Brown today spoke of his fears for people in the Congo.

Mr Brown, on a visit to the Gulf states, said: "My worry is about the thousands of people being displaced at the moment by the violence that is taking place.

"There is only a solution to this by discussion and not by military means."

He said he believed Mr Miliband and other delegations could "make progress" in defusing the crisis.
 
 

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If there was any proof needed as to what Britain the US and France are up to in the Congo then the news that Malloch Brown Minister at the foreign office for Africa and Asia is involved and is floating the idea of troop involvement should spread the warning signs.  The truth is that British troops, British mercenaries and British armananents are aleady behind the massacres going on in Africa.  If you rely on the BBC then Africa  it reads like a James Bond movie with Africans killing themseves and agents like the Brave Mallock Brown and Ministers like David Milliband stepping in to save the day.   The fact that Britain is part of a gang of imperialists trying to rob the African people of their mineral wealth and creating mayhem and wars and massacres whilst trying to hide their involvement of course escapes the BBC news broadcasts. Mallock Brown no doubts styles himself on the James Bond character but the reality not the myth.  He has a government subsidised home  "The Admiralty House" and has been in the business of overthrowing governments since 1986

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British minister in DRC amid fresh fighting reports
KINSHASA, Nov. 18 (Xinhua) -- British Minister of State for Africa, Lord Mark Malloch Brown, was in the clash-torn Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) on a three-day peace mission, amid reports of fresh fighting between the government and Tutsi rebels.

Brown told reporters on Monday that a durable solution to the crisis lies in the reinforcement of the role of the MONUC, the UN peacekeeping mission in the DRC.

Brown, who arrived earlier in the day, made the remarks after talks with DRC Prime Minister Adolphe Muzito.

The British minister stressed that the position is shared by the international community and the UN Security Council will adopt a resolution this week to that end.

Meanwhile, UN officials reported the resumption of clash between the government forces and the rebel National Congress for the Defense of the People (CNDP). One of the peacekeepers was wounded in the crossfire on Sunday when the CNDP claimed to gain ground near Rwindi in the eastern province of North Kivu.

The CNDP accused the government of launching attacks first nearly in the wake of the good-offices mission by UN special envoy for DRC Olusegun Obasanjo.

Before his departure from North Kivu, the former Nigerian president said that he had met with CNDP leader Laurent Nkunda inJomba and Nkunda pledged to respect the ceasefire he had unilaterally called on Oct. 29, if not attacked. The rebel leader also agreed to maintain humanitarian corridors for aid to refugees.

UN officials have confirmed that the UN Security Council hopes to vote this week on a resolution that would boost the MONUC from the current 17,000 troops to nearly 20,000 to help avert a repeat of the 1998-2003 war.

Fighting resumed in August after the government and the rebels signed a UN-brokered deal in January in Goma. The renewed conflict has displaced 250,000 people and threatened the stability of the Great Lakes region in Africa.