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Delegates unimpressed by draft accord

    NAIROBI

    Some delegates to the Arusha peace process have said they are not happy with the 200-page draft accord delivered to them by the mediators this week, saying it contains nothing new. “We don’t regard this as a draft agreement but as a compilation of different positions stated by the different delegations negotiating here,” Godefroid Hakizimana , president of the pro-Tutsi Social Democratic party (PSD) told AFP. CNDD spokesman Jean- Marie Sindayigaya agreed. “This draft is nothing new compared with the documents that were distributed at the end of February,” he told the news agency. “It’s a compilation ... of the work we have already done.” Issues still under discussion include army reform, the future electoral system and transitional arrangements.

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