Hear hear!
You are not going to solve nothing ( as americans would say)... not with
Museveni involved. What fools
Matek
Zuma And Museveni to Discuss Burundi Talks Progress
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South African Press Association (Johannesburg)
November 11, 2002
Posted to the web November 11, 2002
Pretoria
Deputy President Jacob Zuma is to meet Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni in
Kampala on Tuesday to discuss the latest developments in the Burundi
ceasefire negotiations, the South African presidency said on Monday.
Museveni was chairman of the Great Lakes Regional Initiative on Burundi,
while Zuma acted as peace talks facilitator.
On Friday, two of the main warring parties in Burundi failed to find
agreement on a ceasefire to end the nine-year civil war in the central
African country.
Consensus was reached on a number of substantial issues after 19 days of
talks in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, but several technical points remained
outstanding.
The talks involved the Burundi transitional government and the largest rebel
faction in that country -- the National Council for the Defence of
Democracy-Forces for the Defence of Democracy (CNDD-FDD). A delegation of the
other main rebel group, the Palipehutu Forces for National Liberation (FNL)
did not take part in the latest round of negotiations.
The parties missed a November 7 deadline set at a regional summit a month
earlier for a ceasefire agreement to be concluded, or face action.
"The leadership of the region now has to provide direction on the way
forward," the presidency said in a statement.
The civil war in Burundi had so far claimed an estimated 200000 lives, mostly
civilians.
Violence broke out in October 1993 after paratroopers from the Tutsi minority
assassinated the country's first democratically elected president, a Hutu.
Tutsis have been in power for nearly 40 years since independence from Belgium
in July 1962.
A three-year transitional government was established a year ago after Tutsi
and Hutu political parties signed a power- sharing deal aimed at ending the
war.
Rebel groups, however, did not commit themselves to the agreement, and
fighting has continued.
Zuma is to return to South Africa on Tuesday, the presidency said.
