BURUNDI.Continuing Violence Condemned The Security Council on 29 September condemned all attacks on civilian populations in Burundi and urged armed rebel groups to settle their differences and implement the Arusha Peace and Reconciliation Agreement for Burundi, signed on 28 August. The facilitator of the Arusha Peace Process, Nelson Mandela Noun 1. Nelson Mandela - South African statesman who was released from prison to become the nation's first democratically elected president in 1994 (born in 1918) Mandela, Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela , warned that if the armed groups were not included in the peace process, there was no guarantee that the Agreement for Burundi would be followed by the rebels. Secretary-General Kofi Annan Kofi Atta Annan (born April 8, 1938) is a Ghanaian diplomat who served as the seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations from January 1 1997 to January 1 2007, serving two five-year terms. He was the co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2001. on 29 September called the Arusha Accord a "comprehensive blueprint" for the reform of Burundian society. It addressed "the root causes of the conflict", such as exclusion and genocide genocide, in international law, the intentional and systematic destruction, wholly or in part, by a government of a national, racial, religious, or ethnic group. , as well as "the tragic consequences of the war", including the plight of hundreds of thousands of refugees and internally displaced displaced see displacement. people, he said. |
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