UN Security Council Calls on DRC to Fully Investigate Death of UN Experts

The UN Security Council in a statement condemned the killing of two UN experts in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and urges the Congolese government to fully investigate the crime.

UNITED NATIONS (Sputnik) — On Tuesday, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres confirmed that organization's two experts had been killed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

"The members of the Security Council condemned in the strongest terms the killing of two UN experts," the statement noted on Wednesday. "The members of the Security Council called on the Government of the DRC to swiftly and fully investigate these crimes and bring the still unidentified perpetrators to justice."

The Council urged the Congolese authorities to keep searching for the four missing Congolese nationals who were accompanying the experts. Members of the Council also encouraged a UN inquiry into the crime as was earlier suggested in the statement by the Secretary General on March 28.

On March 13, media reported that a citizen of United States Michael Sharp and a Swedish citizen Zaida Catalan working for the United Nations in the Democratic Republic of the Congo were kidnapped along with their local interpreter.