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Fadul expects Vieira to return

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    Meanwhile, Guinea Bissau Prime Minister Francisco Fadul told Lusa on Tuesday that the agreement allowing Vieira to leave Guinea Bissau covered temporary residence abroad for medical treatment but not political exile.

    Permission to leave was reportedly granted after Vieira renounced the presidency and promised to return to Guinea Bissau to stand trial, the agency said.

    “Were Nino (Vieira) not to be tried, the seventh June uprising would lose all meaning, and impunity would reign in Guinea Bissau,” interim President Becai Sanha, quoted by ‘Diario de Noticias’, said.

    He was speaking on Tuesday at the official celebration of the first anniversary of the military uprising that ended in Vieira’s ouster. Sanha also announced the imminent release of 307 political prisoners.

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