UN General Assembly
1993

overcome. Mistakes must be recognized as such and corrected. That is one of the basic tenets for a new Burundi. Yes, we must accept our history the better to face the future. We want that future to be a safer and securer one for all. Thus, the Government we formed following the elections last June is an open Government. In it, we have brought together people from every ethnic group, from every region of the country and of different political persuasions. All those people from every social background and differing political persuasions are working together with might and main to ensure that the process of democratization in Burundi will be irreversible. We consider that to be the best way to reach our goal, namely, to reconcile the people of Burundi with themselves and with their State the better to commit themselves to the battle for their economic, social and cultural development. Guided by that will, the Government has just proposed, and the National Assembly has ratified, an amnesty law under which more than 5,000 of our compatriots - 70 per