The UN Secretary’s concern during his visit to the country is improving on the humanitarian situation of vulnerable people.

The Secretary General of the United Nations Organisation (UNO), Ban Ki-moon during his visit to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) discussed with President Joseph Kabila, senior government officials and comforted internally displaced people in North Kivu.

On the first day of the three-day visit that ends today, February 25, 2016, Ban Ki-moon during the trip to the camp of the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Mungote, North Kivu in the eastern part of the country said, “We have to give hope to young people. Particularly, we have to do much more to bring all these children back to school; we have to do much more to protect human dignity and human rights of women and girls to save them, to protect them from sexual violence,”   the UN News Centre quoted.

Speaking on the occasion, he promised that, “As Secretary-General, I will do my best efforts, working together with the United Nations Member States,” to resolve such humanitarian issues as the refugee and migrant crisis and ensure the human dignity for all. He assured that the Internally Displaced Persons camps in the area will not be closed following reports that the authorities want to close the camps for apparent lack of resources.

Ban Ki-moon said, the UN will work together with the local and central Governments, justifying that, “It is important to provide life-saving assistance to those people who need daily humanitarian assistance.” He said the United Nations Organisation Stabilisation Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO), the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo and the national police are working very closely. “The protection of civilians is the number one priority for UN peacekeepers,” he said.

Ban Ki-moon leaves the DR Congo capital, Kinshasa today for South Sudan where he is expected to meet with President Salva Kiir and visit a Protection of Civilians site run by the UN mission.  To end the tour which  he started in Burundi, the UN Secretary General will convene the first-ever World Humanitarian Summit in Istanbul,  Turkey in May and a summit on global migration and refugees in September. Justifying the summits, he said, “We need support from the Member States as the UN cannot do it alone. No country can resolve all these issues alone.”