OUAGADOUGOU, Nov. 27 (Xinhua) -- The head of the delegation for the ruling National Council for Democracy and Development in Guinea, Moussa Keita, has ruled out the possibility of step-down of the military junta in the ongoing negotiations to end the crisis.

In an interview with Xinhua on Thursday before his delegation met with Burkinabe President Blaise Compaore, the mediator in the Guinea crisis, Keita, a minister and permanent secretary for the CNDD, said it is ridiculous on the part of the opposition pressure groups to demand the departure of council president Moussa Dadis Camara.

"They (members of the pressure groups) must be clear, they know the CNDD is in power. It is out of the question to ask the CNDD to go" Keita warned, stressing the CNDD's departure is not negotiable.

"Those who are speaking as pressure groups, 80 percent of them were prime minister and ministers in the different Guinean governments," the head of the CNDD delegation said. "It is those so called pressure groups who were the main actors in looting from Guinea's economy for their own well being." he declared.

Before the Sept. 28 event, Camara had stretched out his hand to the opposition for them to come and form an inclusive government, said Keita, in reference to the clash between protestors and soldiers on the day. A local human rights watch said more than 150people were killed, while the junta put the toll at 57.

"We are ready to extend a hand to them so that they can come and work with us, but this has to be in the interest of the nation," Keita said, renewing the call for the pressure groups to come to their senses and put the Guinean national interests above anything else.

The head of the delegation said that the CNDD was ready to name a prime minister through consensus who must come from one of the 96 political parties in Guinea and approved by all.

"We are ready to have a prime minister with the profile desired by the mediator, but he has to be through consensus and from one of the 96 political parties," Keita stated.

The CNDD representative said he was convinced that the pressure groups will not agree on a choice of one candidate for the prime minister's post because Guinea's political leaders are always tribal in their political entities.

"All (political leaders) have founded their parties on ethnic and regional basis," he said, adding that each of the political leaders would hope that the future prime minister comes from his tribe.

Keita viewed transparency as necessary for choosing whoever for the post, hoping he will be able to help the CNDD and the nation to come out of the woods because, after 50 years of independence, the Guinean people have not had any small bit of good life.

The CNDD delegation was scheduled to meet with President Compaore, who was named by the Economic Community of West African State (ECOWAS) as the mediator in the Guinea crisis, then to begin direct negotiations with the pressure groups.

The West African country has suffered the crisis since the military junta seized power in December. Both the African Union and ECOWAS have suspended Guinea to press for its return to constitutional order.