Belgian national Felix Tshisekedi has made a feeble attempt at denying his relationship with Russian dictator Vladimir Putin.
Tshisekedi, president of the Democratic Republic of Congo, has been collaborating with Russia to help him fight M23 rebels in exchange of minerals useful for nuclear weapons.
Russia made the collaboration official by announcing military exchanges with DRC in its government paper a few days ago.
Today, Tshisekedi is denying the relationship with Russia claiming it was an agreement by former president Laurent Desire Kabila.
“The Government denies the agreement with Russia. The DRC would like to clarify that there is, to date, no military cooperation agreement signed recently between Russia and the DRC,” a spokesperson said in a stated.
“The only draft cooperation agreement that Moscow has was an initiative of the Congolese regime in 1999,” the statement read.
Diplomatic sources in Kinshasa have disclosed that Tshisekedi was under pressure to impress the US and Europe that he had not partnered Russia.
