Decentralisation document should go to Parliament before month’s end – Mozambique

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Decentralisation document should go to Parliament before month’s end – Mozambique

12:06 CAT | 25 Nov 2016

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The team of international mediators in Mozambique’s ongoing political dialogue reiterate that the proposal on the decentralisation of power in Mozambique should be completed and submitted to the Assembly of the Republic before the end of the month. “The aim is to ensure that the decentralisation package is submitted to Parliament at the end of November, and at the same time to declare a cessation of hostilities,” Mario Raffaelli is quoted by the Mozambican Information Agency as saying after a meeting of the mediators.

The mediator coordinator also said that, following separate meetings with the Government and Renamo delegations this week, the decentralisation proposal document – delivered to both delegations for the second time, after consensus failed to be reached on the mediators’ first – is now being harmonised.

“We have had the reactions of both delegations and now we are working on them. This is the second document we have delivered to the parties. We delivered the first one; they put forward their reactions; we reviewed the document,” Raffaelli explained, adding that the Joint Commission has been working hard to ensure that the decentralisation package is agreed quickly.

In this fourth phase of the political dialogue – the first without the presence of Renamo’s Jeremias Pondeca , who was murdered – mediators are holding separate meetings with the delegations mandated by Filipe Nyusi and Afonso Dhlakama. According to Mario Raffaelli, these meetings are more productive and dynamic, and he would, he said, continue to favour them.

Political dialogue with international mediation began last May with four points on the negotiating table: the cessation of military hostilities, provincial governance, the disarmament of the party led by Afonso Dhlakama and the integration of Renamo combatants into the Defence and Security Forces.

Source: O País