DAKAR, March 30 (Xinhua) -- Since Gen. Sekouba Konate became Guinea's interim president in January, there has been hope that the Ougadougou peace deal signed in the month will be implemented to end the crisis in Guinea, observers in Dakar say.

For months, Konate has been promoting a process to implement the agreement with the creation of the National Transition Council (CNT), the appointment of a prime minister from the opposition and a planned presidential vote within six months.

His latest move to carry out the Ouagadougou accord came on March 14, when he promulgated a decree, vowing not to contest in the upcoming elections, just as all the other members of the transition government.

"None of the transition actors, regardless of their positions, will be a candidate in the forthcoming elections," he pledged while addressing to the troops at Camp Alpha Yaya Diallo.

Optimism also comes from the fact that on Jan. 21, the interim president named Jean Marie Dore, the leader of the opposition Union for Guinea's Progress (UPG), as the prime minister in conformity with the Ouagadougou accord.

Dore was then the spokesman of the pressure groups, a coalition of opposition parties, civil society and trade unions, which were opposed to the military junta's National Council for Development and Democracy (CNDD).

The CNDD was created by the junta after seizing power on Dec. 23, 2008, taking advantage of the death of president Lansana Conte.

The forming of a national unity government came three weeks after the appointment of Dore and then the CNT headed by the secretary general of Guinea's National Workers Confederation, Rabiatou Serah Diallo.

Comprising 101 members of civil society, trade unions, political parties and the CNDD, the council is charged with the duty of the National Assembly, which was dissolved by the military junta.

The interim president has also confirmed through a presidential decree that on June 27, 2010, the date proposed by the National Independent Electoral Commission (CENI), the first round of the presidential elections will be held.

Such acts are seen as likely to restore stability in Guinea.

"Today there's hope that there will be elections in Guinea. I do not think, considering the prevailing situation, that there will be any problem. General Konate is implementing the Ouagadougou accords," affirmed Alioune Tine, the president of an NGO called the African Assembly for the Defense of Human Rights (RADDHO), one of the actors in Guinea's peace process.

According to him, there is no longer any fear even from the army side. "But we must at this time help Konate to continue with the military reforms," he added.

"We know that there is general Lamine Cisse who was sent by the ECOWAS (Economic Community for West African States) and who has a lot of experience in dealing with difficult situations and on whom we must count. With his competence and experience, if there are adequate means, then the army reforms should be done," Tine explained.

However, the RADDHO president thinks that the support of the international community should continue even after the elections.

This is because "Guinea is a weak state, the administration is almost inexistent. They must be helped in all the domains," he recommended.

On his part, Senegalese political scientist Babacar Justin Ndiaye remains cautious in his analysis of the Guinean situation.

"The Guinean political scene is always slippery and consequently can go either way and disapprove the optimism of a number of observers," he said.

However, he admitted that "general Konate seems to be disinterested in politics and therefore could go ahead and implement the Ouagadougou accord."

On the other hand, he said, Konate might not be totally out of the military circles where there is the existence "of groups still opposed to transition, those with the nostalgia of their authority and some who still have Moussa Dadis Camara's ghostly thoughts."

Camara, the junta's No. 1, agreed to hand over power to his deputy Konate under the Ouagadougou peace deal and has stayed in Burkina Faso for medical treatment of wounds after shot in the head by an aide-de-camp on Dec. 3, 2009. E