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Guinea's opposition renews confidence in Compaore as facilitator to tackle crisis
News Date: 24th November 2009
After totally rejecting the ECOWAS facilitator's proposals for ending the political crisis, Guinea's pressure groups have renewed their confidence in Burkina Faso President Blaise Compaore in efforts to find a way out.
Compaore, who was named the facilitator weeks ago by the West African regional bloc ECOWAS, have invited the opposition pressure groups and the military junta's team for talks in Ouagadougou for a power sharing deal. But the stalemate is yet to break following the deadly Sept. 28 clash in Conakry.
Guinea's pressure groups were hosted in Ouagadougou on Friday and Saturday by President Compaore, who asked them to come up with a document detailing their grievances on the proposals that he had given them.
One of the opposition leaders, Sydia Toure, who was a former prime minister, noted on Sunday that the pressure groups only rejected the
contents of the document but not the facilitator himself.
In their own document, the pressure groups insist the departure of the National Council for Democracy and Development (CNDD) of Capt. Moussa Dadis Camara is "not negotiable" and that none of the members serving in the current government of the junta should be a presidential candidate.
According to well placed sources, the document from the pressure groups was handed over to the facilitator on Sunday.
The junta delegation already left Ouagadougou for Conakry and is expected back on Tuesday to continue with the negotiations.
The coming week is expected to be decisive for the protagonists in the Guinean crisis.
Source: GNA
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