The hearing will come to order. I think committee is privileged to see our distinguished chairman joining us monopo. I thank him for his leadership on africa. So great to see you and thank you for your ongoing leadership and for yesterdays important briefing on nikki haley our ambassador to the United Nations and a major portion of that important briefing late in the afternoon was on the congo. So thank you, chairman royce. The democratic republic of congo was supposed to conduct elekdss one year ago this month to achieve the required transition of political power by december 19th. However, after years of stalling on making preparations for elections, the government failed to hold elections last year and relied on a provision that he could not step down until an election was held. Our Ranking Member have had had ongoing meetings with the roc officials, including high level people who have flown to washington and time and time again we haved a monished them stick to the schedule and ins
Thank you so much chairman, smith, Ranking Members for organizing this hearing and for inviting me. Im a researcher and officer of Political Science at columbia university. Over the past two years dip mats, politicians have focused mostly on the political crisis around general elections and on the struggle for power. Were so preoccupied with the up coming elections that were diverting our attention awae from the many other issues that are causing violence in congo. And were wasting the opportunity to tackle these issues. Based on peace building and several years of working in congo, i believe and i will show you in my state, theres a better way to help revise these conflicts. There are many other caws of violence beyond the electoral political issue. And by acknowledging democracy and peace do not always go together. The two most important measures congress can take are to increase the United States support to peace building and to put local actors in the drivers seat. The delay of Hol
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