Watch: Seven countries support peace in Mozambique, Renamo demilitarisation process – Macamo

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Watch: Seven countries support peace in Mozambique, Renamo demilitarisation process – Macamo

7:00 CAT | 27 Sep 2018

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Favourable responses to Renamo’s demilitarisation have been given by Germany, Zimbabwe, India, Ireland, Norway, Switzerland and the US, who have offered support for the demilitarisation, demobilisation and reintegration of Mozambique’s largest opposition party’s residual armed forces, Speaker of the Mozambican Parliament Veronica Macamo said on Tuesday.

“We hope that by the beginning of October the process will begin to take a more rapid and practical course,” she said in Maputo on the sidelines of Armed Forces Day ceremonies yesterday.

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The government of the Mozambican Liberation Front (Frelimo) and the Mozambican National Resistance (Renamo) are negotiating a new peace agreement to replace the indefinite ceasefire announced in December 2016 by opposition leader Afonso Dhlakama, who died due from ill-health on May 3 this year.

The conflict zone in the centre of the country has remained peaceful, and ongoing negotiations culminated in February in a decentralisation agreement which was implemented in a constitutional amendment in May.

A further understanding on military matters was reached in July, and is expected to lead to the disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration of Renamo forces and pave the way for lasting peace.