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Government says ceasefire crucial to peace process

    NAIROBI

    The government on Monday told the UN that a ceasefire was crucial to the Burundi peace process and that its neglect, “for incomprehensible reasons”, risked ruining the whole process. The government, in “deep disagreement” with the office of the facilitator - the late Julius Nyerere - had been calling for more than a year “for the involvement of the armed faction of the rebellion in the peace process, even if on a parallel basis”, a letter from the foreign ministry to UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan stated. “A peace agreement signed during the continuation of war would be as senseless as it would be inapplicable,” it added.

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