UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Sergio Vieira de Mello arrived in Bujumbura from Nairobi on Thursday for talks with officials. Speaking during a visit to Somalia on Wednesday, he condemned the slaying of nine people, including two UN staffers, in Rutana province, describing it as “simply intolerable”. He said the violence in Burundi was “obviously linked to the internal state of civil war that the Arusha peace process does not seem to have managed to bring under control”. He stressed that the UN “will never pull out from a political engagement - whether in Burundi or anywhere else.”
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