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FRONT PATRIOTIQUE RWANDAIS
RWANDESE PATRIOTIC FRONT
New York
6 January 1994
The President
United Nations Security Council
Political Situation in Rwanda
As the Security Council meets to consider the United
Nations Secretary General's report on UNAMIR, the Rwandese
Patriotic Front wishes to draw the Security Council's attention
to the current political impasse that risks to jeopardise
the Arusha Peace Agreement.
The Secretary General's report on UNAMIR to the UN Security
Council shows progress in the implementation of the Arusha
peace agreement. Indeed until the 29th December 1993, the
date on which transitional institutions were to be established,
everything was going as agreed on in a high-level meeting
between the RPF, the Rwanda Government and the Special Representative
of the UN Secretary-General at Kinihira, 80 kilometers from
Kigali, on 10th December 1993.
In conformity with the calendar agreed on at Kinihira,
the RPF executive as well as Ministers and Deputies to represent
the Front in the Broad-Based transitional Government and the
Transitional National Assembly arrived in Kigali on the 28th
December 1993. The swearing-in ceremony scheduled for 29th
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December 1993, however, did not take place. When the current
Prime Minister proposed that the ceremony take place on January
1st 1994, the President of the Republic refused to comply,
claiming that he had not been informed and that some parties,
namely, MDR and PL still needed to solve their internal problems.
Since then, the President has become more intransigent.
Although on the 5th December 1993 he bowed to pressure and
allowed himself to be sworn in, he has refused to swear in
the members of the Transitional National Assembly who have
been approved by the Constitutional Court according to the
provisions in the Arusha peace agreement. The President has
instead sought to introduce a list of members of the TNA of
his own choice in total disregard of the sovereignty of the
political parties in choosing their own representatives who
must then be approved by the Constitutional Court before they
can be sworn in.
It is clear that the President of the Republic, as in
the past, is seeking to derail the peace process and frustrate
UNAMIR. The President, instead of expediting the implementation
of the Arusha Peace Agreement, is channeling all his efforts
in creating an alliance of all political forces that are not
happy with the peace agreement. He continues to train the
militia INTERAHAMWE, which is linked to this party and to
arm civilian populations, in the prefectures of Kigali, Ruhengeri
and Gisenyi.
The Rwandese Patriotic Front, therefore calls upon, the
National and International Community to intervene before the
crisis deepens and bring pressure on President Habyarimana
to allow the establishment of the transitional institutions.
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It is of great urgency that these institutions be put in place
to allow the return of the displaced people, the restoration
of security as well as the rebuilding of the economy.
The Rwandese Patriotic Front has, and will continue to
coperate with UNAMIR to see that the Arusha Peace Agreement
is implemented in its entirety and therefore urges the United
Nations Security Council to ask President Habyarimana to comply
with the Arusha Peace Accord for the sake of the Rwandese
people who are tired of war and wish to resume their normal
productive life.
Claude Dusaidi
Director for External Relations
(The Americas)
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