# UNSC 2773 demands RDF cease support to M23 and withdraw without preconditions

Date: 2025

## The fact

On 21 February 2025 the Security Council adopted resolution 2773 (Chapter VII). It strongly condemns M23 advances with RDF support, records Goma and Bukavu, and demands that RDF cease support and withdraw without preconditions.

## Context

He commands the RDF named in the resolution. The Council wrote it. Kigali’s FDLR counter-narrative is a neighbouring recorded position, not a veto of the paragraph.

Goma 28 January; Bukavu 14 February; 2773 on 21 February 2025; later Washington process. Keep UNSC 2773 demands RDF cease support to M23 and withdraw without preconditions on 2025-02-21 separate from neighbouring M23, 2773, ballot, and mapping-report instruments.

The president of Rwanda is head of state and commander-in-chief of the RDF. He can decree, run a 99 percent ballot, and open or close a cross-border file. He does not write UNSC resolutions, does not sit as a Johannesburg inquest magistrate, and does not author a unique DRC civilian death total invented here.

## Evidence and sources

UN Security Council carries the official instrument or communique. UN News records the same dated act independently.

## Significance

The path is eastern-drc-m23-rdf: a completed Chapter VII demand aimed at RDF support.

## What is established and what is not

Established: S/RES/2773 was adopted on 21 February 2025 demanding RDF cease support and withdraw without preconditions.

Not established: That RDF had completed withdrawal that week, or a unique RDF headcount in the resolution text.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

He commands the RDF it names.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies UNSC 2773 demands RDF cease support to M23 and withdraw without preconditions, not a later speech about UNSC 2773 demands RDF cease support to M23 and withdraw without preconditions.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. UNSC 2773 demands RDF cease support to M23 and withdraw without preconditions on 2025-02-21 is not a licence to treat every later UN Security Council communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average UNSC 2773 demands RDF cease support to M23 and withdraw without preconditions into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to The Council wrote 2773. He commands the RDF it names. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series.

## People

- Paul Kagame: https://factrail.ai/people/paul-kagame

## Drivers

- Eastern DRC / M23–RDF (Great Lakes): https://factrail.ai/drivers/eastern-drc-m23-rdf

## Sources

- https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/02/1160276
- https://undocs.org/S/RES/2773(2025)

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/rw-unsc-2773-2025