By Matthew Russell Lee
UNITED NATIONS, October 18 -- After Rwanda won 148 votes and a two-year UN Security Council seat, Inner City Press asked Foreign Minister Louise Mushikiwabo about the leaking, two days before the election, of the report of the Democratic Republic of the Congo Group of Experts headed by Steve Hege.
Minister Mushikiwabo said that the leak before the election was "predictable" and called Hege "problematic" and suffering from an "ideological hangover."
Inner City Press previously identified and linked to Hege's writings from 2009 downplaying the danger posed by the FDLR militia -- once linked to, the article was taken off the Internet.
Mushikiwabo said the DRC's attempt, by charge d'affaires Charlotte Omoy Malenga, to interrupt the voting by saying Rwanda was not qualified was a product of "frustration." She said that DRC should see Rwanda being on the Security Council as value added.
Inner City Press asked Mushikiwabo about her previously criticism of the MONUSCO peacekeeping mission: how should it be changed? She said Rwanda is not entering as a revolutionary. But on some issues, the Security Council and wider UN need to be shaken up. Watch this site.
