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Manuel Bissopo, Renamo Secretary-General (in file CoM)
Renamo Secretary-General said on Thursday that peace talks with the government “are flowing”, and that the party’s interim leader’s move to the Gorongosa mountains demonstrated his commitment to the ideals of the late Renamo president Afonso Dhlakama.
“The dialogue with the Mozambican president is flowing. It is true that it is a complex process and it requires calm and patience, but the process is moving forward,” Manuel Bissopo, quoted by the private channel STV, said, without providing further details.
According to Bissopo, the relocation of the Mozambican National Resistance’s (Renamo) interim leader Ossufo Momade to the Gorongosa mountains was a demonstration of the party’s commitment to peace. “It is a clear demonstration that we are faithful to what our commander-in-chief has decided: an unlimited truce and peace and stability in the country,” Bissopo added.
Momade is now resident in the same base where the former Renamo leader lived from the end of 2015 until his death on May 3 this year. His relocation was announced by Mozambique’s main opposition party earlier this month.
Afonso Dhlakama died of health complications in the Gorongosa mountains at a time when both he and the Mozambican president, Filipe Nyusi, seemed close to an understanding for peace, a commitment that both Nyusi and Renamo have since said they maintain.
In addition to the decentralization of power, in which the parties have already reached consensus and a document to revise the constitution has been scrutinised by the Assembly of the Republic, negotiations between Renamo and the Mozambican government are now focusing on the disarmament, demobilization and reintegration of the armed wing of the main opposition party.
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