The European Union (EU) has welcomed the African Union’s push for high-level talks. The AU adopted the mediation plan this past weekend, after shelving a proposal to send in peacekeepers to quell the violence.
The EU says it supports an African solution to this crisis, with the AU taking the lead from the beginning.
The AU says it wants the Burundian government to return to the dialogue process immediately and genuinely co-operate with peace efforts.
EU says any proposed initiative by high level African Union leaders to visit Burundi is welcome, and it is willing to support anything which can strengthen the mediation process.
More than 400 people have been killed with more than 200,000 fleeing the country since president Pierre Nkurunziza declared ten months ago that he’d seek a third term.
The EU says it continues to receive allegations of serious human rights violations and that more observers must be deployed as soon as possible to investigate them.
