UNITED NATIONS, July 12 (Xinhua) -- UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Thursday that it is OK with him if the postponement of his visit to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) means President Joseph Kabila is going to announce something positive.
Guterres and African Union Commission Chairperson Moussa Faki were originally scheduled to travel to Kinshasa to meet Kabila this week. But the trip was put off because "the president will announce very soon a number of important decisions and that the president doesn't want to give the impression that he is doing so because of international pressure," the UN chief told reporters at UN Headquarters.
"If that means that he (Kabila) is going to take the right decision and wants to give the impression that no international pressure has led him to take the right decisions, I will be very comfortable with the postponement," the UN chief said.
Guterres said "not only our visit but other visits were postponed."
Kabila, who reached his limit in office in December 2016 and who has postponed elections for a successor, has been under international pressure to step down. After delays, presidential and parliamentary elections were announced for December 2018.
