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Preamble
We, the Congolese People,
• Reference to fraternity/solidarity
United by destiny and history encompassing the noble ideas of liberty, of fraternity,
of solidarity, of justice, of peace and of work;
• Motives for writing constitution
• Regional group(s)
Animated by our common will to build, in the heart of Africa, a State of Law and a
powerful and prosperous Nation, founded on a real political, economic, social and
cultural democracy;
Considering that injustice and its corollaries, impunity, nepotism, regionalism,
tribalism, clanism and patronage, by their multiple vicissitudes, are at the origin of
the general decline of values and of the ruin of the country;
Affirming our determination to protect and to consolidate the national
independence and unity with respect for our diversities and for our positive
particularities;
• International law
• International human rights treaties
Reaffirming our adherence and our attachment to the Conventions of the United
Nations on the Rights of the Child and on the Rights of Women, particularly to the
objective of the parity of man-woman representation within the institutions of the
country as well as to the international instruments concerning the protection and
promotion of human rights;
• Regional group(s)
Moved by the will to see all the African States united and working in concert with a
view of promoting and of consolidating African unity through the continental,
regional or sub-regional organizations to offer better perspectives of development
and of socio-economic progress to the Peoples of Africa;
Attached to the promotion of mutually advantageous international cooperation and
to the rapprochement of the peoples of the world, with respect to their respective
identities and to the principles of sovereignty and of the territorial integrity of each
State;
Reaffirming our inalienable and imprescriptible right to organize ourselves freely
and to develop our political, economic, social and cultural life, following our own
genius;
• God or other deities
Conscious of our responsibilities before God, the Nation, Africa and the World;
Solemnly declare to adopt this Constitution.
TITLE I: OF THE GENERAL PROVISIONS
Chapter 1: Of the State and Sovereignty
Section 1: Of the State
Article 1
The Democratic Republic of the Congo is, within its frontiers of 30 June 1960, a
State of Law, independent, sovereign, united and indivisible, social, democratic and
secular.
• National flag
Its emblem is the sky-blue flag decorated with a yellow star in the superior left
corner and transversed on the bias by a red band finely outlined in yellow.
Congo (Democratic Republic of the) 2005 (rev. 2011)
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