PRESS POINT BY MINISTER JULIEN PALUKU KAHONGYA ANNOUNCES IN WASHINGTON ON THE SIDE OF THE AGOA RENEWAL FORUM
In front of the American press yesterday Thursday in Washington after having been received in Congress and at the Department of State, the Congolese Minister of Foreign Trade sold the OGOA-DRC strategy with its 26 priority sectors including 21 non-mining and 5 mining.
Julien Paluku Kahongya called on the United States of America to support the Democratic Republic of Congo in the development of value chains to thus strengthen the local processing of its natural resources, in addition to trade.
During this press briefing at the "National Press Club", the Minister of Foreign Trade invited the Congolese diaspora living in the United States of America to support the Government and economic operators to increase exports of Congolese products to the United States of America; because the latter will now be part of the AGOA national committee which will be set up shortly, he added.
I call on the United States of America to deal directly with the Democratic Republic of Congo instead of always going through commission agents who distinguish themselves in the systematic pillaging of Congolese natural resources by destabilizing the east of the country.
The real FDLR that Rwanda is pursuing in the DRC are called Congolese minerals, concluded Julien Paluku Kahongya
