translate English to French: Now, after five years of fighting, the agony that is tearing Congo-Zaïre apart is imperceptibly becoming firmly rooted; the situation of its people becomes worse and worse, their conditions of existence are miserable in the extreme, and there is no real, tangible sign of hope that peace will be swiftly restored or robustly maintained in the Great Lakes Region, still less that the process of reconstruction can begin, in Congo-Zaïre and its devastated regions. Are we to stand by, passive and uncaring onlookers, as this horror becomes set in stone?
L'UNIR MN note avec satisfaction l'adoption, par le Conseil de l'Union européenne le 11 mars 2002, de la position commune " concernant le soutien de l'Union européenne à la mise en œuvre de l'accord de cessez-le-feu de Lusaka et du processus de paix en République démocratique du Congo ", et propose à l'Union européenne d'adopter une position commune condamnant les Etats qui n'observeront pas scrupuleusement les dispositions de l'Accord susvisé.