31.   For the past month, the United Nations has been using a carrot and stick approach with Burundi, favoring preventive diplomacy but not ruling out any option.

32.   Faguy replaces Ahmedou Ould Abdallah, who left in October after an busy period of preventive diplomacy.

33.   Later four working groups will discuss preventive diplomacy and crisis-management, security, human rights and economy.

34.   The forum had adopted a three-step approach, he said, starting with confidence-building and moving on to preventive diplomacy and then conflict resolution.