For Émile Ngoy, the DRC expects from this official visit of the Congolese Head of State, firstly a revival of both cooperation and also major diplomatic issues between the French government and that of the Democratic Republic of the Congo in a context marked by the difficult situation, the situation of war, instability, insecurity in the east of the DRC.

Regarding the quite harsh words that Emmanuel Macron had against the DRC, during his visit to Kinshasa, the Congolese diplomat stated "that one must know how to forgive and forget to the extent that there was an immediate and strong reaction from our president, His Excellence Félix-Antoine Tshisekedi who had responded, and we think that all this also makes a great story, a beautiful story that exists between France and the DRC."

A year ago, we recall, President Macron had stated during a joint press conference with Félix Tshisekedi in Kinshasa that the Congolese leaders "since 1994, have not been capable of restoring the sovereignty of their country, neither military, nor security, nor administrative, it's a reality and one should not look for someone to blame outside…"

In response to the question of what the DRC reproaches Western countries and particularly France for, Emile Ngoy suggested that the country does not accept "the guilty silence of the international community, because the main cause is not a war of religions, not a war of ideologies, a war of values, but a war of looting of natural resources."

This is why, moreover, RFI recalled, that the DRC has taken legal action against the company Apple, accused of using minerals from Congolese mines illegally exploited by Rwanda… "this is what we call blood minerals, minerals of fraud. And for that, I think that we also have in our sights the agreement you know about, the memorandum of understanding between the European Union and Rwanda, for which we demand to this day that there be traceability and transparency", said the ambassador of the DRC, highlighting that "a value chain should not start from the middle, it should start from the origin, that is from the production. We cannot start a value chain essentially at the point of supply, but we must also look at the point of production."

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