The international community on Friday urged Kinshasa and former rebels M23 "quickly implement" their commitments solemnly yesterday endorsing the end of their conflict in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.
"The envoys encourage parties to quickly implement the commitments they have undertaken in the statements, including disarmament, demobilization and reintegration of members of M23 in the DRC, Rwanda, and Uganda, according to the case," said a statement issued by the UN.
In this text, signed by UN Special Envoy for the Great Lakes region, Mary Robinson, his American counterparts, Russ Feingold, the African Union Boubacar Diarra and the European Union, Koen Vervaeke and the head of the UN Mission in the DRC, Martin Kobler, the Special Envoys "urging the government of the DRC to ensure that all those who committed war crimes and crimes against humanity, respond their actions. "
Kinshasa and the rebel M23 formally endorsed in Nairobi Thursday the end of their conflict in the eastern DRC, more than a month after the military defeat of the rebellion in early November, which led its members to flee to Uganda and Rwanda.
No sign of agreement, the two sides have each signed their side a unilateral declaration of commitments.
The M23 has confirmed his renunciation of weapons and promised to demobilize his fighters and turn into a legal political party.
For its part, the Congolese government must make this possible by facilitating reintegration of demobilized militia, taking a number of socio-economic and security measures, and by submitting to Parliament a draft amnesty law for "acts of war and insurrection "which may not benefit the authors of war crimes, crimes against humanity and other serious violations of human rights.
At a press conference in Kinshasa, the Minister of Communication and Spokesman of the Congolese government, Lambert Mende, said it was "no question [that demobilized rebels] join the military" Congolese.
Born of a mutiny in April 2012, former integrated into the Congolese army rebels, the M23 had concentrated its efforts in the province of North Kivu (east), in the basement coveted rich mineral resources, where he said the defense Rwandophones populations face some of the many militias still present in this province.
In this regard, the Special Envoys "call all negative forces [armed groups in the DRC, Ed] to lay down their arms", while the loser M23, the Congolese army and UN peacekeepers now have in their line of Focus Rwandan Hutu rebels of the Democratic Liberation Forces of Rwanda (FDLR), against which they have launched a few days ago an offensive.
This is reflected especially now with a stronger presence in some areas previously held by the FDLR and the army and the UN say they have paid without a fight.
FARDC are "offensive in the North in the crosshairs with the ADF-Nalu" Ugandan rebels on Congolese soil, and further south, in Ituri, in the crosshairs with [...] FRPI "(Front for Patriotic Resistance of Ituri), a Mende says no further details.
About armed groups, the Minister added: "It took away with the biggest of them was the M23 after it is FDLR and after we will not go to and we will not finish" .
The President of the Community Development Southern Africa (d) and the President of Malawi, Joyce Banda, signed 12 December 2013 a peace agreement between the rebels M23 and the DRC government in Nairobi 
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