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Burkina Faso favours peace talks

[DRC] UN peacekeepers touch down in Bunia, 24/04/03 Bunia Airport. IRIN
UN peacekeeping forces arriving in Bunia
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    Burkina Faso feels the war in Sierra Leone cannot be ended simply by military means and the preferred option is for the Freetown government and the RUF to hold talks, Foreign Ministry officials told IRIN today. Burkina Faso chairs the Organisation of African Unity which, a government official said, would only intervene where subregional bodies, such as the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), failed to resolve political problems.

    “As a subregional member (of ECOWAS) Burkina Faso can only express its position,” an official said.

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