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President Nyusi begins visit to Switzerland with peace and human rights on the agenda
9:42 CAT | 26 Feb 2018
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President Filipe Nyusi starts a visit to Switzerland today to receive an honorary doctorate and participate in the 37th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva.
The session runs until Wednesday and includes a meeting with the president of the Swiss Confederation, Alain Berset, aimed at “strengthening political, economic and commercial relations” between the two countries, the Mozambican presidency has announced.
A business delegation and other members of the Mozambican government accompany the head of state and have today started bilateral meetings as well as and with the Mozambican community resident in Switzerland.
President Nyusi is due to speak at the Human Rights Council session today, alongside the representatives of Austria, Bosnia Herzegovina and Australia, and is expected to meet the United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres, according to the Mozambican presidency.
TODAY: The UN Human Rights Council's 37th session opens at the Palais des Nations. UN Secretary-General António Guterres will address the Council this morning. Watch live ? at https://t.co/TMoKiPmFcw, 9 am CET.
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Mozambique is experiencing a ceasefire between government forces and the armed wing of the Mozambican National Resistance (Renamo), the main opposition party since December 2016, after armed clashes in the centre of the country.
The Head of State will be honoured on Tuesday with the title of Doctor Honoris Causa by the Geneva School of Diplomacy and International Relations for the peace negotiations he has undertaken.
Filipe Nyusi and Afonso Dhlakama, leader of Renamo, have announced progress on several fronts towards the signing of a definitive peace agreement for the country. The latest development is an agreement on a decentralisation model presented in a proposal to change the constitution .
Both have also said that an understanding on the disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration of armed Renamo opposition combatants men is within grasp.
Source: Lusa
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