Burundi: Finalise election process, security council says

Members of the UN Security Council visiting Africa's Great Lakes region asked the government of Burundi on Tuesday to speed up the country's peace process and complete the political transitional period by 2005. "It is imperative to conclude the process as there is no alternative to the 2005 elections," Jean Marc de la Sablière, the French ambassador to the UN and head of the 15-member delegation, told reporters on arrival at Bujumbura airport.