"We're going to Ouagadougou on November 2 to respond to an invitation from the mediator. But there's no planned meeting with the junta," said Oury Bah, an aide to opposition leader Cellou Dalein Diallo.
"In any case, the question of the junta is settled. We ask for it to quit power and we count on the political skill and the intelligence of the mediator to bring this demand into effect," Bah said.
Guinea has been plunged into crisis since the September 28 massacre by troops of opposition protestors in a Conakry stadium who had gathered to urge junta leader Captain Moussa Dadis Camara not to run in a presidential election he had pledged for January.
The United Nations estimates that more than 150 people were killed. Human rights groups in Guinea put the death toll at 157 and the number of injured at more than 1,200, while the junta says 56 people died and 934 were wounded.
Bah said the delegation to Burkina Faso will be "homogenous, with political parties, members of civil society and the trade unions."
"We've insisted with the mediator on a peace-making gesture between now and that date, November 2, by calling for the release of detained people," Bah said. "We hope these people will be free before the meeting."
At the start of the week, a list of 80 people missing since September 28 was handed in Conakry to the visiting UN deputy secretary-general for political affairs, Haile Menkerios, who was paving the way for an international commission of inquiry.
During his first visit as the facilitator named by his African peers, Compaore urged representatives of the junta and of the opposition to come to Ouagadougou and renew a political dialogue.
But the opposition refused to talk to the junta until the army quit power, which Camara took on December 23 last year within hours of the death of President Lansana Conte.
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