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Government urges postponement

    NAIROBI

    Burundi had called for postponing the pre-Arusha consultations in Dar es Salaam. In a letter to the Nyerere Foundation, government spokesman Luc Rukingama said more time was needed for the discussions. Six major sides involved in the Arusha process - the government, national assembly, pro-Tutsi UPRONA and PARENA parties and pro-Hutu FRODEBU and CNDD - are due to meet ahead of next month’s proposed resumption of the committee meetings. The process currently hangs in the balance due to the death of the facilitator Julius Nyerere, but Burundi Peace Process Minister Ambroise Niyonsaba told the Agence burundaise de presse (ABP) the talks would continue and a new facilitator would be found.

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