Parliamentary speaker on upcoming meeting with Mandela

Parliamentary Speaker Leonce Ngendakumana and President Pierre Buyoya are to meet peace mediator Nelson Mandela in South Africa on 7 February, ahead of the next round of Arusha talks on 21 February. Interviewed by the BBC Kirundi service, Ngendakumana said Mandela had told the government and parliament to start behaving "in a way that everybody in the country can trust us". He said the two men would inform Mandela of the suffering in
the country. "All Burundians should acknowledge they have sinned...and we should forgive each other," he said. He added that other issues he wanted to raise with Mandela included his belief that the rebels should be invited to Arusha "as one group and not several", as well as the future composition of the government.