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Delegates from major parties to the Burundi conflict have ended
consultation meetings in Dar es Salaam, ahead of next week's peace talks in Arusha. "The Dar es Salaam meeting was not for making decisions but to harmonise positions," Burundi's Peace Process Minister Ambroise Niyonsaba told IRIN. He said the meeting was a success because delegates made progress by agreeing to set up commissions "to investigate genocide and
other killings at various levels". "Despite different perspectives, delegates submitted their views on other issues such as what type of democracy, the transitional administration and the composition of defence forces," Niyonsaba added. He stressed that the decisions would be made in Arusha.
Meanwhile, the spokesman for the facilitation team, Hashim Mbita, told IRIN that the delegates still had to agree on democratic constitutional principles, administrative procedures for the transitional government, electoral procedures and reform of the armed forces. The mediator, former South African President Nelson Mandela, has said he will involve all
Burundian sides in the Arusha process.
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