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François Mitterrand : « Il reste des hôpitaux, des églises, quelques lieux, quelques sites où tout n'a pas été massacré. Il y a donc une extrême urgence ! »

Card Number 3492

Number
3492
Author
Chazal, Claire
Author
Lapeyre, Arnaud
Date
18 juin 1994
Ymd
19940618
Time
20:00:00
Time zone
CEST
Uptitle
Journal de 20 heures [2:13]
Title
François Mitterrand : « Il reste des hôpitaux, des églises, quelques lieux, quelques sites où tout n'a pas été massacré. Il y a donc une extrême urgence ! »
Subtitle
La France a demandé la réunion du Conseil de sécurité des Nations unies pour mettre en place une mission humanitaire.
Size
7064112 bytes
Source
TF1
Public records
INA
Type
Journal télévisé
Language
FR
Abstract
- The situation in Rwanda mobilizes the French authorities. François Mitterrand and Alain Juppé both speak of a military intervention in the coming days. France has in fact requested a meeting of the United Nations Security Council to set up a humanitarian mission. Mission which was instantly confirmed at the end of a meeting held in Matignon in the presence of Edouard Balladur.
- The peacekeepers, who have just paid a last tribute to one of theirs killed yesterday [June 17], proceeded today to the evacuation of 300 civilians stranded in the capital. A difficult evacuation due to the fighting in Kigali.
- France wants to intervene to ensure the safety of those who have escaped the killings to date. François Mitterrand: "There are still hospitals, churches, a few places, a few sites where everything has not been massacred. There is therefore an extreme urgency!".
- But this intervention could only take place within a specific framework. According to François Léotard, Minister of Defense, "Two things are excluded: it is first that we go alone. And it is that we stay a long time. Two things are necessary: ​​it is that we obtain a mandate of the international community. And it is because we are being helped by other countries and in particular by African countries".
- An intervention project condemned by the rebels of the Rwandan Patriotic Front while the fighting continues in the capital.