Buyoya "confident" right mediator will be named

President Pierre Buyoya on Monday said he expected the new facilitator for the Burundi peace process, to be nominated at a regional summit in Tanzania this week, would hold the "qualities we have specified," Radio Burundi reported. "I am going to Arusha with confidence," he was quoted as saying before his departure for the summit. He reiterated his government's position that the facilitator, to replace former Tanzanian president Julius Nyerere, would have international stature and mediation experience and would be acceptable to Burundians. "We did not say that the mediator must come from South Africa or that the talks must take place in South Africa. We have expressed a wish that the country plays an important role and we are going to continue hoping for the same," Buyoya said.