Main points of draft accord

According to Burundi radio, some of the main points contained in the just-released draft accord provide for a president and two vice-presidents, to be appointed in Arusha, and drawn from different ethnic groups and political parties. The National Assembly will have 100 deputies and there will also be a Senate made up of two delegates from each of the country’s provinces. On security, the draft states that no single ethnic group will constitute more than 50 percent of the defence forces “to prevent them from becoming monoethnic or instruments of ethnic dominance”. The transition, according to the draft, will come into effect three to six months after the signing of the accord and will end after a maximum 30 months with the election of a new president.