{"id":5585,"date":"2022-10-02T23:31:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-02T23:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sealnews.co.uk\/?p=5585"},"modified":"2022-10-24T11:45:18","modified_gmt":"2022-10-24T11:45:18","slug":"un-chief-condemns-attack-on-peacekeepers-in-drc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sealnews.co.uk\/?p=5585","title":{"rendered":"UN chief condemns attack on peacekeepers in DRC"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">UNITED NATIONS &#8212; UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Saturday strongly condemned Friday&#8217;s attack on UN peacekeepers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), which left one Pakistani blue helmet dead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;The secretary-general recalls that attacks against United Nations peacekeepers may constitute a war crime under international law. He calls on the Congolese authorities to investigate this incident and swiftly bring those responsible to justice,&#8221; said Stephane Dujarric, spokesman for Guterres, in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Guterres expressed his deepest condolences to the family of the fallen peacekeeper and to the government and people of Pakistan, said the statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He reaffirmed that the United Nations will continue to support the Congolese government and people in their efforts to bring about peace and stability in the east of the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Twirwaneho combatants were suspected to have carried out the attack against a Company Operating Base of the UN peacekeeping mission in the DRC in Minembwe of South Kivu province, according to the statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Twirwaneho militia is one of over 120 armed groups in volatile eastern DRC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UNITED NATIONS &#8212; UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Saturday strongly condemned Friday&#8217;s attack on UN peacekeepers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), which left one Pakistani blue helmet dead. &#8220;The secretary-general recalls that attacks against United Nations peacekeepers may constitute a war crime under international law. He calls on the Congolese authorities to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5599,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media","category-social","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sealnews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sealnews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sealnews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sealnews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sealnews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5585"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sealnews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5600,"href":"https:\/\/www.sealnews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5585\/revisions\/5600"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sealnews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sealnews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sealnews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sealnews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}