THE UN Security Council will meet in an emergency session after UN attack helicopters launched missions against rebels in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, diplomats say.
France's UN mission announced on its Twitter account on Saturday that it had called for a meeting of the 15-nation body on the offensive launched by M23 rebels and that talks would start at 3.00pm (0700 AEDT Sunday).
The UN mission in DR Congo, MONUSCO, said in a statement that M23 rebels had launched an offensive with "heavy weapons" early on Saturday and that it had put peacekeepers into action as part of its mandate to "protect civilians".
"As part of this, 10 missions were carried out by its attack helicopters," the statement said.
The attack helicopters, provided by Ukraine, were put on standby on Friday after M23, former government troops who launched a mutiny in March, launched a surprise attack against the army just north of the Nord Kivu provincial capital of Goma.
The new fighting is concentrated around the town of Kibumba, about 25 kilometres north of Goma.
"MONUSCO is following the situation closely and will not tolerate any advance or action by M23 troops which would provoke panic in the civilians population," said the UN mission's statement.
MONUSCO said that M23, which UN experts have said is backed by Rwanda and Uganda, has "entire responsibility" for the new crisis.
The fighting since April has displaced tens of thousands of civilians and the UN said thousands more had arrived in camps this week.
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