GREAT LAKES: IRIN-CEA Update 1,049
BURUNDI: Concern over peace accord
More and more parties are expressing concern over the peace agreement
signed in Arusha, Tanzania, on 28 August. A faction of the ruling UPRONA
party, led by the information minister Luc Rukingama, stated that the
accord "faced many problems". The BBC Kirundi service cited UPRONA's
delegate to the Arusha talks, Libere Bararunyeretse, as saying the problem
centred on the fact that "politics were discussed before a ceasefire".
Exiled politicians who took part in the talks could not return home as
long as the war continued, and implementation of the agreement would be
difficult in their absence, he said. Neither, according to Bararunyeretse,
did the accord spell out the relationship between the transitional
institutions. It was therefore necessary to meet again "to revisit all the
issues discussed in a rush in Arusha", he said.
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