In Zaire, the Special Rapporteur spoke with the Prime Minister, the Ministers for Foreign Affairs, the Interior, Justice and Defence and with the Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs, the two First Vice-Presidents of the Supreme Council of the Republic—Transitional Parliament (Haut Conseil de la République—Parlement de transition) (HCR-PT), the Governor of Kinshasa and the Chairman of the Rassemblement démocratique pour la République (RDR), the Governor of Southern Kivu, and with the Secretary-General of the recently created Zairian National Commission on Human Rights (CNZDH), which plans to be a “national institution” for the promotion and protection of those rights. He also spoke with the Bishop of Bukavu, as well as with the ambassadors of several countries, representatives of the Holy See and of the European Union and with the UNHCR delegation in Kinshasa, Goma and Bukavu.