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As the Peacebuilding Commission held its second country-specific meeting on Burundi today, Commission Members agreed to fill the gap in that nation's peacebuilding efforts with approximately $25 million from the Peacebuilding Fund, according to an unofficial estimate provided by the Assistant-Secretary-General for Peacebuilding Support, Carolyn McAskie. Ms. McAskie also said that a final figure would be decided pending a review, by her Office, of the Priority Plan for the Peacebuilding Fund in Burundi -- a document containing interventions to strengthen the peacebuilding process, and which was decided jointly by that country's Government and the United Nations. As noted by the Commission in its draft Chairman's summary, donor per capita assistance in Burundi remained low, while a budgetary shortfall was proving worrisome to the Government's peacebuilding efforts, especially if civil servants and members of the security force failed to receive their salaries....