Summary: 4 September 2007, Brussels - The European Union expresses its grave concern at recent developments in Eastern Congo and specifically at the military confrontations currently taking place. They threaten the consolidation of peace in the DRC and the stability in the region. The violence is causing increasing numbers of displaced persons and human suffering is now widespread, particularly in the Kivu Provinces.
The EU underlines the need for immediate and concerted political and diplomatic action to find peaceful solutions.
The EU welcomes the important initiative taken by the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the Democratic Republic of Congo and of Rwanda to meet in Kinshasa on September 3rd and 4th to discuss prospects for the normalisation of bilateral relations and the urgently required solution of the problems of the armed groups operating in the east of the DRC.
The EU remains strongly committed to furthering stability and development in the region and will to this effect continue its support to regional cooperation and to the individual countries in the region.
The Candidate Countries Turkey, Croatia* and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia*, the Countries of the Stabilisation and Association Process and potential candidates Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Serbia, and the EFTA countries Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway, members of the European Economic Area, as well as Ukraine, the Republic of Moldova, Armenia and Georgia align themselves with this declaration.
* Croatia and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia continue to be part of the Stabilisation and Association Process.
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