Topic: Congo
Country: Slovakia
Delegate Name: Rachael Gingerich
School: Saline High School
Topic page: background guide and all position papers All Slovakia position papers GLIMUN 2007 committees
The Slovak Republic is in complete support of calming political turmoil in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Slovakia identifies strongly with the birth of democracy and the installment of election systems in a country previously devoid of these practices. The solidification of democratic organization recently achieved within Slovakia’s own borders allows for unanimous support of UN actions in Congo. Since joining the EU and NATO in 2004, Slovakia remains in adamant cooperation with both organizations. Currently, Slovakia has 301 soldiers working in UN peacekeeping operations. Absorbing the ideas of European international diplomacy, the Slovak Republic is a force in the propulsion of the MONUC’s work in progress, the DRC.
Because of its desire to be a promoter of peace and active agent of the UN, Slovakia believes it is necessary to untangle the jungle of disorder which consumes the Congo region. Slovakia cannot ignore the state of distress which occupies armless native peoples of the DRC. Presently, its citizens are oppressed, are helpless victims to bloody rampage. They are caught between corruptions of government, renegade, and other armed troops. It is Slovakia’s position that peace must be attained in the especially disparaged Eastern Congo region. The Lusaka Ceasefire Agreement has not but must be enforced. When a country’s people are helplessly subjected to internal battle for power, corrupt and boycotted elections, election fraud, and other such harms, it is the ethical duty of the EU to repel such evils. Absolutely, Slovakia sides with the EU in maintaining MONUC and guiding the DRC’s struggling infant democracy into more stable political territory.
To counter anarchy and continue in combat of ruthless armed groups in the DRC, the UN must strengthen its forces. With protective troops heavily concentrated in the major population centers of the eastern region of Congo, fear and destruction are prime factors of distress in remote villages. More soldiers are required to amplify the affects of the 17,000 peacekeepers currently chipping away at corruption in Congo. To realign the crooked, fragile, and slowly progressing election system, MONUC must continue in providing stability for the Congolese.
