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Opposition Tutsi parties to boycott summit

    NAIROBI

    Six opposition pro-Tutsi parties say they will boycott a regional summit on Burundi scheduled for Monday in the Tanzanian town of Arusha, the Hirondelle news agency reported. Five of them back Epitace Bayaganakandi, an alternative candidate for the Tutsi presidency of the transition, and are unhappy at the decision to appoint President Pierre Buyoya to lead the first 18 months of the transition. The sixth party, PARENA, backs its own leader Jean-Baptiste Bagaza. The 19 sides which signed the Arusha peace accord are due to meet in Arusha on Friday, ahead of the summit, to focus on the composition of the transitional government and a timetable for implementing the peace agreement.

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