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5:20 CAT | 06 Jul 2023
Image: Presidente Filipe Nyusi / Facebook
Mozambique’s president has thanked the envoy of UN Secretary-General, Mirko Manzoni, for his support in the peace process in Mozambique, highlighting the key role of the contact group in promoting reconciliation in the country, the presidency announced.
“The group has played a key role in promoting peace, reconciliation and stability throughout Mozambique since its creation,” Filipe Nyusi said, quoted in a statement from the presidency.
The last base of the Mozambican National Resistance (Renamo), the largest opposition party, was closed in Vunduzi, Gorongosa district, in the central province of Sofala, on 15 June, marking the end of the disarmament and demobilisation process of the party’s guerrillas.
For the Mozambican head of state, the efforts of the contact group for peace, led by Mirko Manzoni, were “crucial” during the process, encouraging the parties to stay on the “right track”, as well as mobilising “much needed” resources to move the negotiations forward.
“The recent conclusion of the disarmament and demobilisation activities is one of the results on which we are immensely proud as a nation,” Filipe Nyusi stressed.
The president of Mozambique thanked each of the members of the contact group for their commitment, suggesting that they “continue to collaborate with donors” as the reintegration phase continues.
Mirko Manzoni, then Switzerland’s ambassador to Mozambique, was appointed in July 2019 by United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres to mediate peace talks between the Mozambican government and Renamo.
The closure of the last Renamo base is part of the Peace and National Reconciliation Agreement signed by the government and Renamo in August 2019, the third signed between the parties, the first two having been violated and resulted in an armed confrontation following the main opposition party’s contestation of the election results.
Under Disarmament, Demobilisation and Reintegration, 5,221 Renamo guerrillas have returned home.
The reintegration phase follows, which includes the start of pension payments to the demobilised.
Source: Lusa
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