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Mozambique: Disarmament agreement “an extraordinary step” – Graça Machel
12:52 CAT | 22 Aug 2018
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Mozambican social activist Graça Machel considers the agreement between the government and Renamo to disarm the main opposition party an “extraordinary” step, noting that the country’s political leadership needs the support of all Mozambicans.
The agreement on the demilitarisation of the Mozambican National Resistance (Renamo) “is an extraordinarily important step, with extraordinary significance,” the Mozambican daily newspaper Notícias quotes Machel as saying.
The agreement between Filipe Nyusi and interim Renamo leader Ossufo Momade answers the country’s longing for, and commitment, to, lasting peace, she added.
“After many years, we have acceptance that, not only are we brothers, but we have a unified state,” Machel said.
On 6 May, Mozambique’s President Nyusi announced the signing of a memorandum of understanding between the government and Renamo on the demilitarisation and integration of the forces of the main opposition party into the army and the police.
The Mozambican head of state did not elaborate on the content of the document, but said that it was a “decisive” instrument in the peace talks with the late Renamo leader, Afonso Dhlakama, who died May 3 from health complications.
In addition to the disarmament and integration of the men of the armed wing of the largest opposition party in the armed forces, the negotiating agenda between the two sides involved decentralisation of power, a point addressed by the revision of the constitution in July.
Source: Lusa
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