Watch: Dialogue for peace is well under way in Mozambique – Community of Sant’Egidio

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Watch: Dialogue for peace is well under way in Mozambique – Community of Sant’Egidio

1:11 CAT | 10 May 2018

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The Community of Sant’Egidio, which mediated the Mozambique Peace Accords in Rome in 1992, said yesterday that it felt that dialogue for peace was well under way in Mozambique.

“I think the Mozambican people want peace with certainty. The President of the Republic and President Dhlakama started a dialogue and it seems that everyone is saying they want this dialogue to continue,” Maria Chiara Turrini, Sant’Egidio representative in Mozambique said.

Turrini was speaking to journalists on the sidelines of the Renamo leader’s funeral ceremonies in Beira, central Mozambique, yesterday.

“The President [Nyusi] was very clear and it seems to me that there is also a desire on Renamo’s part to continue the dialogue, which in fact has brought a lot of hope. It seems that it has taken steps toward finding a solution to the problem of decentralisation,” she said.

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However, words need to be translated into results.

“It is necessary that there be an agreement, that the words be written and signed, and then it is a whole democratic process. Mozambique has started the process, and should continue to develop it,” she said.

Turrini speaks of the democratic process “at the level of the country and the parties”.

“The words, of course, do not guarantee anything. Men and conditions too change, so I say it is a process that is always evolving.”

Even if there is “disagreement and incomprehension” one should not “abandon the dialogue and the common good of the country, which is peace”, she concluded.

Oggi onoranze funebri per Dhlakama, pilastro della pace in Mozambico. Un commosso ricordo da parte di chi ha avuto il privilegio di conoscerlo e apprezzarlo. Cooperando con lui, 28 anni fa come oggi, per assicurare un futuro migliore al popolo mozambicano.

— mario raffaelli (@mraffa1946) May 9, 2018