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South Africa: Nqakula to Brief on Burundi Peace Process
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BuaNews (Tshwane)
14 October 2007
Posted to the web 15 October 2007
Pretoria
The Facilitator of the Burundi Peace Process Minister Charles Nqakula is to brief the media on Monday, on progress regarding this vital initiative.
The briefing, to be held at the Union Buildings, follows an urgent meeting convened on Friday, by the Regional Technical Committee to deal with matters that are threatening the project to find durable peace for Burundi.
The Regional Technical Committee is comprised of representatives from Uganda, whose President chairs the Regional Initiative; Tanzania, the President of which is the Deputy Chairperson, and South Africa, the facilitating country.
The issues that were discussed in the meeting include the following:
- The walkout by the PALIPEHUTU-FNL, the last rebel movement in Burundi not to participate in the peace process, from the Joint Verification and Monitoring Mechanism (JVMM).
The JVMM is the vehicle established by the Regional Initiative for the implementation of the Comprehensive Ceasefire Agreement (CFA).
- The split within the PALIPEHUTU-FNL that has resulted in hundreds of FNL combatants abandoning their positions and seeking shelter, food, medical support and protection from the Facilitation.
The Chairperson of the Regional Initiative, President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda has instructed the Facilitator to immediately create Assembly Areas for the armed combatants who have left PALIPEHUTU-FNL positions.
The meeting decided, therefore, to make a further call to the PALIPEHUTU-FNL to rejoin the JVMM for a meeting in Bujumbura on 20 October 2007, to resume the implementation of the Comprehensive Ceasefire Agreement.
The comprehensive ceasefire agreement seeks to strengthen the Agreement of Principles Towards Lasting Peace, Security and Stability, signed by the two parties on 18 June 2006.
In that agreement the parties made a number of commitments, including addressing ethnicity issues, which have broadly been blamed for conflicts in the Great Lakes country.
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They also agreed to provisional immunity for members of the Palipehutu-FNL and its transformation into a political party; the repatriation of refugees and return of displaced and regrouped persons; as well as the overhaul of defence and security forces.
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