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Guinea crisis talks must go ahead: PM
Conakry (AFP) Dec 11, 2009 Talks this weekend to break the political deadlock in Guinea must go ahead, Prime Minister Kabine Komara said Friday, even as junta leader Moussa Dadis Camara recovers from an attempt on his life. Speaking to journalists, Komara effectively overturned an earlier announcement that the junta would keep out of the talks until Camara -- shot in the head on December 3 -- returns from hospital in Morocco. "The negotiations must continue in a spirit that takes the current situation into account," said the prime minister, emerging from a meeting with defence minister and interim head of state General Sekouba Konate. "I want Guinea to reaffirm all its international commitments" during that meeting, he said. Komara said his meeting with Konate focused on the make-up of the junta's delegation to talks that are set to take place in Burkina Faso's capital Ouagadougou on Sunday. But in a veiled warning to the opposition -- a coalition of political groups, labour unions and civil society -- he added: "Concessions must be made ... otherwise, it will be all the people of Guinea who will be held hostage." "Everyone needs to understand that the higher interest of the nation must prevail," he said. Guinea has been mired in crisis since the coup d'etat that unfolded just hours after the death in December 2008 of president Lansana Conte, who himself came to power in the west African nation in an August 1984 coup. Camara was shot in the head on December 3 in a military base in Conakry by his aide de camp, Aboubacar Sidiki Diakite, who remains at large. The two are said to have fallen out over a September 28 massacre in Conakry's main stadium, where the army opened fire on demonstrators opposed to Camara standing for election in 2010. At least 150 people were killed and more than 1,200 were injured, according to human rights groups and the United Nations. The junta says that 56 people were injured. Komara meanwhile rejected on Friday a suggestion by junta spokesman Idrissa Chreif that "French services" had sought to prepare a coup to overthrow Camara's regime, which the French foreign ministry has dismissed as "rumours". "Nobody has officially said that France's hand was behind it," he said. "Officially, that is not the position of Guinea." Share This Article With Planet Earth
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