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Government team to explain need to try Vieira

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    The new government has set up a three-member team of envoys to tour foreign capitals and explain why Vieira must stand trial, Reuters reported on Wednesday, quoting a government spokesman Armando Procel.

    Vieira has been accused of committing treason by inviting Guinean and Senegalese troops into the country without parliamentary approval, and of failing to stop some of his senior officers from smuggling arms to Senegalese separatists.

    Reuters quoted unnamed political sources as saying that friction had developed between Fadul and Mane over Vieira. Fadul is reportedly in favour of allowing the ex-president to go into exile while Mane wants him tried.

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