Watch: Dialogue in Mozambique has produced palpable results, Nyusi tells UNGA

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Watch: Dialogue in Mozambique has produced palpable results, Nyusi tells UNGA

10:49 CAT | 27 Sep 2018

Photo: presidencia.gov.mz

Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi declared on Tuesday that national dialogue has produced palpable and encouraging results for peaceful coexistence, contributing to economic recovery.

Speaking in New York, at the General Assembly of the United Nations, Nyusi said there has been peace in the country “for more than two years, thanks to the commitment of all Mozambicans”.

According to a summary of the speech published on the website of Nyusi’s office, he added that the process of disarming and demobilising the “residual forces” of the former rebel movement Renamo, and reintegrating them into society, has now begun.

The municipal elections scheduled for 10 October and the general elections in late 2019 “are unequivocal fruit of the strengthening of democracy”, the President said,

He thanked the international community for its support, and called for further assistance with the demobilisation of Renamo’s armed force “because the Mozambican people are determined and want to live in peace”.

Turning to the UN itself, Nyusi said reform of the Security Council would guarantee the continuing relevance of the UN for all peoples. Such reform needed to be accelerated so that the Security Council could face the current challenges of peace and development.

“An unequal and fractured world needs multilateralism to overcome its gaps”, said Nyusi. “The United Nations is the mother forum for multilateral dialogue, and the advances achieved so far are unequivocal proof that the sharing of responsibilities is a global imperative, and an essential vector for the building of a peaceful, just and harmonious world”.

Nyusi added that Mozambique recognises the role of the UN in promoting dialogue and in defending the principle of peaceful solutions to the conflicts which continue to affect peoples and nations. Those conflicts, Nyusi argued, are at the origin of human rights violations, and put the brakes on sustainable development.

He said Mozambique joins other UN member states in calling for the normalisation of relations between Cuba and the United States, for the pacification of the Korean peninsula, and for the right to self-determination of the peoples of Palestine and of the Western Sahara.