I certainly would not have taken this assignment if I thought there was no way to change it.
People say, well, it has always been the same. Things never work out in the DRC. That was not true in 2006.
I know that there are some in our own country--it might be that Hillary Clinton would not agree with Presidential succes...
It was a failure and it caused great loss to the credibility of President Kabila who had made significant progress after...
I think we ought to look at any modifications where people give specific problems with the mechanism.
I simply will not say that it is fine, it is great until the job is done.
We have seen with the M23 it is possible, with a combination of military and diplomatic pressure, to persuade people may...
U.S. companies must now disclose the origin of minerals purchased from the DRC.
The Congolese reform agenda, which Special Envoy Feingold discussed at length, clearly needs to move forward.
The people of eastern Congo, particularly the women of eastern Congo, have to believe that the military is there for the...
We still have a place where hundreds of thousands of women have been raped and gotten HIV because of this.
Action against the FDLR and the ADF has to happen I think relatively soon to make sure that the diplomatic commitments t...
It has been a model of cooperation between the branches that I have experienced with Senator Coons.
This region has been brutally exploited by colonial powers and by other countries in a way that is shameful and has deni...
I am cautiously optimistic about the road ahead for the DRC and the Great Lakes.
We made it very clear to them that we thought that was a violation of the framework and something that should not happen...
We raised this issue with the Rwandan Government that we had seen a credible body of reporting that that was happening.
Not only is democracy in the Congo problematic, particularly following the 2011 elections, but those in neighboring coun...