US envoy: Little achieved in UNSC meeting with Burundi president
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Channel: CGTN Africa · 2016 · News & Politics
The United Nations Security Council ambassadors have met with Burundi's president to push for peace talks and an international force to quell worsening political violence. It is the council's second visit to Burundi in less than a year.The meeting came a day after rebels in the country raised the stakes in the crisis by declaring a general, who led a failed coup in May as their leader, deepening concerns that Burundi is sliding back into conflict, after its ethnically charged civil war ended in 2005.The government insists there is no ethnic profiling. But opponents say districts of Bujumbura, where many Tutsis live - and which were also hotbeds of protest against Nkurunziza last year - have been targeted with some Tutsis singled out. The 15-member council, which arrived in Bujumbura on Thursday, met with President Pierre Nkurunziza in Gitega for more than two hours. But US Ambassador Samantha Power says little was achieved.
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