The Governing Council of the Inter-Parliamentary Union,
Referring to the case of the above-mentioned parliamentarians, all elected members of the National Assembly of the Democratic Republic of the Congo whose election was unlawfully invalidated by the Supreme Court, as outlined in the report of the Committee on the Human Rights of Parliamentarians (CL/186/12(b)-R.1), and to the resolution adopted at its 185th session (October 2009),
Noting that, at the session it held during the Assembly, the Committee had a hearing with the Vice-President of the National Assembly,
Recalling that the election of the persons concerned in the July 2006 elections was invalidated by the Supreme Court in a ruling of 5 May 2007 which the National Assembly, in a resolution it adopted on 17 July 2007, criticized as being "fraught with irregularities and grave violations" and requested the President of the Republic "to envisage any possible political solution in favour of the victims of the injustice of the Supreme Court of Justice within the framework of reconciliation and national solidarity with a view to safeguarding civil peace in the country",
Considering that, by letter dated 27 August 2009, the President of the National Assembly requested the Budget Minister to pay Mr. Diongo and Mr. Chalupa financial compensation for the prejudice they had suffered, and that, by letter dated 25 March 2010, the Presidents of the National Assembly and of the Senate requested the Prime Minister to grant the same treatment to the other persons concerned,
- Thanks the Vice-President of the National Assembly for his cooperation;
- Is very pleased that a satisfactory settlement has been found and highly appreciates the initiatives taken to this end by the parliament;
- Decides consequently to close this case.
HUMAN RIGHTS