Will the FNL and Nkurunziza deal finish in 2009?
Burundians and the International community are tired of endless timeframe and blueprint of FNL and Nkurunziza Government in Burundi.
UN urges Burundian government, rebels to implement peace deal
4 days ago
UNITED NATIONS (AFP) — The Security Council decided Monday to keep the UN Integrated Office in Burundi in place for another year and urged the Bujumbura government and its rebel foe to honor their recent peace deal.
The 15-member body unanimously adopted Resolution 1858 which decided to extend until December 31, 2009 the mandate of the office, BINUB, which expires at the end of the month.
The Franco-Belgian text also urged the Burundian government and the Palipehutu party, the political arm of the Hutu rebel National Liberation Forces (FNL) "to make every effort to implement, before December 31, 2008, the agreements they reached on December 4, 2008."
Under the accords reached December 4 at a Bujumbura summit which revived hopes of a final end to Burundi's deadly 15-year civil war, the FNL made key concessions.
The deal was signed by Palipehutu-FNL chairman Agathon Rwasa and Burundian President Pierre Nkurunziza in the presence of several regional leaders, including Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni, who chairs the Burundi peace initiative.
The Bujumbura government and the FNL signed a ceasefire accord in 2006 but its implementation had stumbled and both sides had remained at loggerheads over several points.
Burundi is struggling to recover from civil unrest which erupted in 1993 and killed an estimated 300,000 people.
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Were really Burundians Consulted before Nkurunziza and FNL deal?
1 comment:
I personally don't know how their deal was put inplace;so don't many Burundians.
But I think UN security Council wants Burundi to finish that endless deal...corruption...poverty ,violation of Human Rights...such rapes,children in street,hunger...
In so saying, I hope the current Government will not continue playing the unjustice and harassement card...
Please we need real peace in 2009 before the election.....
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