Interview: Congo’s Foreign Minister on the Gaps Between Diplomacy and War at HomeThe government of the Democratic Republic of Congo has been fighting Rwandan-backed rebels who are occupying its mineral-rich east for more than 30 years. Then the 2007 Nairobi communiqué and the 2008 Goma Peace Agreement formed a twin-track framework aiming to resolve both the regional friction and the internal domestic insurgencies. PassBlue sat down with Thérèse Kayikwamba Wagner, Congo’s minister of foreign affairs on July 24, while she was in New York City during her country’s rotating presidency in the Security Council (snippets of the interview on video). We have seen that the Human Rights Council has deployed an independent commission of inquiry on the violations perpetrated in eastern DRC. PassBlue: There have been a lot of conflicts the Security Council has grappled with and continues to do so, seemingly unable to resolve.