UN General Assembly
2015

We believe that the peoples of this world must be respected in their choices. While remaining receptive to the advice of friends, the people of Burundi deserve to have the choice that they made in the recent elections respected. They do not ask for more than this, and it is a question neither of blind stubbornness nor, even less, of the obstinacy of a leader or a people, as some of our traditional friends from the North think. The instigators of the aforementioned insurrection were supported by certain political parties without popular support that knew in advance they would lose the elections. Having therefore decided to bypass the ballot box, these political parties only wanted transitional arrangements similar to the Arusha negotiations as a stepping-stone to power. Their aim was to cause trouble in order to prove that it was impossible to organize the electoral process. Some media were unfortunately on their side. To amplify their action, certain non-governmental organizations supported them financially and morally at a time when some civil society organizations were stakeholders.