Congolese Foreign Minister Thérèse Kayi Kwamba Wagner addressed the members of the UN Security Council on Wednesday.
"This Council observes, this Council condemns, but this Council does not act," she said.
She criticised the lack of a clear resolution to end the violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
And she also called for "the adoption of sanctions against Rwandan political and military leaders involved in this aggression, an embargo on natural resource exports from Rwanda, as well as an end to the fighting and the withdrawal of Rwandan troops."
Blaming Rwanda as the aggressor
"The Rwanda is preparing an open-air massacre with a brutality reminiscent of the darkest hours of our history. On 26 January, I had warned. Today, these words have become reality. In just 48 hours, more than 4,000 people have died in Goma. This is what happens when a terrorist group takes control of a city and imposes its criminal administration under the watch of this Council. Enough excuses, enough cultural relativism used as a pretext for inaction with tragic consequences. The time for endless compromises is over. It is time to act."
The members of the Security Council acknowledged the urgency of the situation and once again condemned the actions of the M23 rebels and Rwanda’s involvement.
The French ambassador mentioned a draft resolution currently under discussion.
But for now, no text appears to have sufficient support to be put to a vote or adopted.
M23 moves forward
Meanwhile, M23 rebel advance causes panic in Congolese border town Uvira.
Volleys of gunfire rang out in Democratic Republic of Congo's eastern border town of Uvira on Wednesday, local sources told news agency Reuters, as clashes broke out among allied forces amid the advance of Rwanda-backed rebels.
Residents and officials described scenes of looting, bodies lying in the street, and government soldiers commandeering boats to flee across Lake Tanganyika.
The local prison was also emptied, they said. The M23 rebels have been moving south towards Uvira, which shares a lake border with Burundi, since they seized the provincial capital Bukavu over the weekend - the heaviest loss for Congo since the fall of the region's largest city Goma in late January.
Over 500 Congolese police officers fled across the border to Burundi, where they were disarmed, a security source, a diplomatic source and a local official said. The interior ministers of Burundi and Congo did not respond to requests for comment.
Burundi is also having to deal with the largest movement of refugees in 25 years, people fleeing the escalating conflict in the DR Congo, the United Nations refugee agency said.
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