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Preamble
WE, BURUNDIAN PEOPLE
Conscious of our responsibilities and of our duties before history and the future
generations;
Reaffirming our faith in the ideal of peace, of reconciliation and of national unity in
accordance with the Agreement of Arusha for Peace and Reconciliation in Burundi of
August the 28th, 2000 and with the Agreements of Cease-Fire;
Considering the necessity to restore a pluralist democratic order and a State of law;
• International human rights treaties
Proclaiming our attachment to the respect of the fundamental rights of the human
person as they result notably from the Universal Declaration of the Rights of Man of
10 December 1948, from the International Pacts relatives to the rights of man of 16
December 1966 and from the African Charter of the Rights of Man and of Peoples of
18 June 1981;
Considering our attachment to social peace and justice;
Conscious of the imperative need to promote the economical and social
development of our country and to assure the safeguarding of our national culture;
Reaffirming our determination to defend the sovereignty and the political and
economical independence of our country;
Affirming the importance, within international relations, of the right of the Peoples
to provide for [dispose] themselves;
• International human rights treaties
Considering that the relations between Peoples must be characterized by peace,
amity and cooperation in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations of June
the 26th, 1945;
• Regional group(s)
Reaffirming our attachment to the cause of the African unity in accordance with the
Constitutive Act of the African Union of 25 May 2002;
Reaffirming our unwavering [inébranlable] determination to put an end to the
profound causes of the continuous state of the ethnic and political violence, of
genocide and of exclusion, of effusion of blood, of insecurity and of political
instability, which have plunged the People into distress and suffering and
compromise gravely the perspectives for economical development and the
realization of equality and of social justice in our country;
• Right to culture
• Reference to fraternity/solidarity
Burundi 2005
Considering that to reach to this result, the following constitutional and legal
principles must be guaranteed:
• The establishment and the implantation of a system of democratic
governance;
• The inclusion of the minority political parties into the general system of
good governance;
• The protection and the inclusion of the ethnic, cultural and religious
minority groups into the general system of good governance;
• The restructuring of the national system of security and of justice in order
to guarantee the security of all Burundians, including the ethnic minorities.
Reaffirming our engagement to construct a political order and a system of
government inspired by the realities of our country and founded on the values of
justice, of democracy, of good governance, of pluralism, of respect for the
fundamental freedoms and rights of the individual, of unity, of solidarity, of mutual
understanding, of tolerance and of cooperation between the different ethnic groups
of our society;
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