UN General Assembly
2010

Nations Office about to open will provide an additional tool, besides existing mechanisms, to promote good governance and build peace, cooperation and development. In the same vein of building confidence and peace in our subregion, from 15-19 November Brazzaville will be hosting the thirty-first meeting of the United Nations Standing Advisory Committee on Security Questions in Central Africa. On that occasion the States of the subregion will seal their commitment to fight the traffic in small arms and light weapons, by signing the Kinshasa Convention. Since the tragic events that brought such suffering to my country in the 1990s and early 2000s, the Congolese Government has invested in the quest for peace and national reconciliation, and works to preserve that precious accomplishment. Moreover, our good neighbour policy — a policy we have always advocated — is one of the pillars of our foreign policy. It is evident today in the way in which we are handling the humanitarian crisis resulting from the arrival in our territory of over 100,000 nationals from Équateur Province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.