Acte d'Engagement auprès de l'Appel de Genève pour l'Adhesion à une Interdiction totale des Mines Antipersonnel et à une Coopération dans l'Action contre les Mines - CNDD-FDD

Year:2003 Type of document:Unilateral Declarations and Statements ANSA:Conseil National pour la Défense de la Démocratie - Forces de Défense de la Démocratie (CNDD-FDD) Country / Territory:Burundi PDF:French

Press Release No. 80 - on AP Mines

Year:2004 Type of document:Unilateral Declarations and Statements ANSA:Conseil National pour la Défense de la Démocratie - Forces de Défense de la Démocratie (CNDD-FDD) Country / Territory:Burundi PDF:English

Communiqué du CNDD-FDD sur l'Usage des Mines

Year:2004 Type of document:Unilateral Declarations and Statements ANSA:Conseil National pour la Défense de la Démocratie - Forces de Défense de la Démocratie (CNDD-FDD) Country / Territory:Burundi PDF:French

Declaration to the Nairobi Summit Made by the Signatories of the Geneva Call's Deed of Commitment for Adherence to a total Ban on Anti-personnel Mines and for Cooperation in Mine Action

Year:2004 Type of document:Unilateral Declarations and Statements ANSA:Arakan Rohingya National Organisation/Rohingya National Army (ARNO/RLA), National United Party of Arakan/Arakan Army (NUPA/AA), National Socialist Council of Nagalim (NSCN), Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), Moro Islamic Liberation Front/Bangsamoro Islamic Armed Forces (MILF/BIAF), Somali National Front (SNF), Sudan People’s Liberation Movement/Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLM/SPLA), Conseil National pour la Défense de la Démocratie - Forces de Défense de la Démocratie (CNDD-FDD) Country / Territory:Philippines, India, Burma/Myanmar, South Sudan, Sudan, Burundi, Iraq, Somalia PDF:English

Comment: Declaration made by: Conseil National pour la Défense de la Démocratie-Forces pour la Défense de la Démocratie (CNDD-FDD) - Burundi; Sudan People’s Liberation Movement and Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLM/A)
- Sudan; Arakan Rohingya National Organisation (ARNO) - Burma; National United Party of Arakan (NUPA) - Burma; National Socialist Council of Nagalim (NSCN) - North-East India/Nagaland; Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) - The Philippines; Kurdistan Regional Government - Erbil, Democratic Party of Kurdistan (KRG/KDP) - Iraqi Kurdistan; Kurdistan Regional Government - Sulaimanyia, Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (KRG/PUK) Iraqi Kurdistan; Somali National Front/Somali Reconciliation and Restoration Council (SNF)/SRRC on behalf of the Somali signatory factions leaders - Somalia.

Accord d'Arusha pour la Paix et la Reconciliation au Burundi

Year:2000 Type of document:Agreements ANSA:Front pour la Libération Nationale (FROLINA), Conseil National pour la Défense de la Démocratie - Forces de Défense de la Démocratie (CNDD-FDD), Parti pour la Libération du Peuple Hutu - Forces Nationales de Libération (PALIPEHUTU-FLN) Country / Territory:Burundi PDF:French, English

Comment: Notably Protocol II "Democracy and Good Governance", Article 1 - 3 concerning Human Rights and fundamental guarantees; Protocol III "Peace and Security for All", Chapter III "Permanent Ceasefire and Cessation oh Hostilities" prohibits all acts of violence against the civilian population; Protocol IV "Reconstruction and Development", Chapter I "Rehabilitation and Resettlement of Refugees and Sinistres".

Accord de Partage de Pouvoir au Burundi

Year:2004 Type of document:Agreements ANSA:Conseil National pour la Défense de la Démocratie - Forces de Défense de la Démocratie (CNDD-FDD), Front pour la Libération Nationale (FROLINA), Front National de Libération – ICANZO (FNL-ICANZO), Kaze - Front pour la Défense de la Démocratie (KAZE-FDD), Parti Liberateur du Peuple Burundais-Agakiza (PALIPE-Agakiza) Country / Territory:Burundi PDF:French

Ceasefire Agreement between the Transitional Government of Burundi and the Conseil National pour la Défense de la Démocratie-Forces de Défense de la Démocratie

Year:2002 Type of document:Agreements ANSA:Conseil National pour la Défense de la Démocratie - Forces de Défense de la Démocratie (CNDD-FDD) Country / Territory:Burundi PDF:English

Comment: Also known as the Burundi Ceasefire Agreement.
Notably Article II: release of all political prisoners, prohibition of mine-laying operations and of operations to obstruct demining, cessation of acts of violence against the civilian population.

Global Ceasefire Agreement between Burundi and the CNDD-FDD (S/2003/1105)

Year:2003 Type of document:Agreements ANSA:Conseil National pour la Défense de la Démocratie - Forces de Défense de la Démocratie (CNDD-FDD) Country / Territory:Burundi PDF:English

Pretoria Protocol on Political, Defence and Security Power Sharing in Burundi

Year:2003 Type of document:Agreements ANSA:Conseil National pour la Défense de la Démocratie - Forces de Défense de la Démocratie (CNDD-FDD) Country / Territory:Burundi PDF:English

Comment: The document consists of an introductory section (The Pretoria Protocol), and is followed by a longer "Forces Technical Agreement."

See in particular

Pretoria Protocol
Article 2 : Temporary Immunity

Forces Technical Agreement
Contains provisions on the composition of the Military, Police and Intelligence Forces. It includes provisions on disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration (DDR) of combatants (Part II. Section 1.1.2.b and c).

The document closes with an Indicative Timetable for the Implementation of the Global Ceasefire Agreement, which includes indicative deadlines for disengagement of forces, DDR, control of heavy weapons, among other things.