“If it were up to me, the country would already be at peace” – President Nyusi

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“If it were up to me, the country would already be at peace” – President Nyusi

9:56 CAT | 29 Jul 2016

Notícias / President Fiipe Nyusi addresses the business community gathered at CASP, in Maputo, yesterday

President Filipe Nyusi said yesterday in Maputo that if it were up to him, the country would already be at peace, but warned that peace cannot be had at any price and that the current situation “is a test of all Mozambicans”.

“All Mozambicans want peace, and if it were up to me, we would have had it yesterday,” the president said at the opening of the Annual Private Sector Conference organized by the Confederation of Economic Associations of Mozambique (CTA).

The head of state said he was aware of the “impatience of society and the private sector for lasting peace to return to the country,” but warned that the process must be managed carefully.

“We do not want the achievement of peace at any cost to suffocate tomorrow the business of the nation and the sacrifice of the people,” Nyusi said, referring to negotiations between the government and the Mozambican National Resistance (Renamo) party to end the military confrontations in the central region of the country.

Addressing the conference, Nyusi reviewed the current political, social and economic scene, which he called “a test for all Mozambicans”. While there is hunger, poverty, unemployment, he said, and while inequality remains, the “social contract with the people will not yet have been achieved, and conflicts will continue”.

Meanwhile, the political dialogue Joint Commission preparing the meeting between the president and Renamo leader Afonso Dhlakama has been suspended until 8 August at the request of international mediators.

During the break, the two parties will consider a proposal by the mediators to break the current impasse on the first item on the agenda – the governance of the six provinces where Renamo claims to have triumphed in the 2014 elections.

Source: Notícias