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ing of mineral supply chains and facilitate bilateral 
trade and United States economic investment in the 
region’s minerals, and to ensure that these commit-
ments are accompanied by additional measures to 
promote justice and accountability for atrocities per-
petrated by all parties to the conflicts in the DRC 
while affirming that acknowledgment of historical 
patterns 
of 
discrimination, 
poverty, 
or 
marginalization may not be used to justify, excuse, 
or legitimize acts of violence against civilian popu-
lations; 
(8) calls on all regional actors to cease attacks 
on civilians and displaced persons camps in accord-
ance with international humanitarian law; 
(9) urges the Government of the Democratic 
Republic of the Congo to, in accordance with and in 
addition to its commitments made in the June 2025 
peace agreement, take meaningful measures to— 
(A) cease support to nonstate armed 
groups, including the Democratic Forces for the 
Liberation of Rwanda and militias known as 
‘‘Wazelendo,’’ and hold accountable all state se-
curity forces that perpetrate atrocities against 
the civilian population by conducting trans-
parent investigations and prosecutions and tak-
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ing all additional necessary measures to prevent 
further atrocities; 
(B) continue progress toward the disar-
mament, demobilization, reintegration, repatri-
ation, and resettlement of armed groups in co-
ordination with the United Nations Organiza-
tion Stabilization Mission in the Democratic 
Republic of the Congo, as outlined in United 
Nations Security Council Resolution 2666 
(2022); 
(C) continue coordinating with the joint 
East African Community and Southern African 
Development Community Nairobi/Luanda peace 
process to encourage peace talks and disar-
mament of armed groups in eastern DRC, pro-
vided that the initiative has an overall positive 
effect on the security of the populace and all 
parties involved in the process ensure that it is 
transparent and well-managed; 
(D) allow and facilitate, in accordance with 
relevant provisions of international law and con-
sistent with humanitarian principles, the full, 
safe, immediate, and unhindered access to hu-
manitarian personnel, equipment and supplies, 
and the timely delivery of humanitarian assist-
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ance to populations in need, in particular to ref-
ugees and internally displaced persons through-
out the territory of the DRC; 
(E) uphold its obligations as a state party 
to the United Nations Convention on the Pre-
vention and Punishment of the Crime of Geno-
cide, the International Convention on the Elimi-
nation of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, 
the International Covenant on Civil and Polit- 
ical Rights, the United Nations Convention on 
the Rights of the Child, and the Rome Statute 
of the International Criminal Court; and 
(F) combat all forms of hate speech and 
hold accountable any person or group respon-
sible for ethnically charged rhetoric and incite-
ment to violence; 
(10) urges the Secretary of State, in coordina-
tion with the heads of other relevant Federal depart-
ments and agencies, to— 
(A) work with other Federal departments 
and agencies to thoroughly investigate atrocities 
committed against ethnic minorities in the DRC 
and develop a strategy to address and deter 
such atrocities pursuant to section 3 of the Elie 
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Wiesel Genocide and Atrocities Prevention Act 
of 2018 (22 U.S.C. 2656 note); 
(B) engage at the highest level with the 
Government of the DRC to mitigate the hu-
manitarian effects of ethnic-based violence; and 
(C) coordinate with like-minded partners 
and key stakeholders to increase and maintain 
engagement on the issue in multilateral fora, 
including the United Nations Security Council; 
and 
(11) calls on the President to— 
(A) appoint a Special Envoy to the Great 
Lakes region of Africa, which will be vital to 
addressing the enduring regional security crisis 
emanating from eastern DRC; 
(B) use all existing authorities to protect 
ethnic minorities who flee ethnic-based violence 
in the DRC, including the authority to des-
ignate ethnic minorities who are nationals of 
the DRC for Priority 2 access to the United 
States Refugee Admissions Program; and 
(C) impose targeted sanctions against 
known human rights abusers in the DRC under 
existing authorities, such as Executive Order 
13413, as amended by Executive Order 13671, 
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and Executive Order 13818, to deter further 
gross violations of human rights against ethnic 
minorities in the DRC. 
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