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6:03 CAT | 06 Mar 2018
EU representative in Mozambique Sven von Burgsdorff has called on the main political stakeholders in the country to define a model of national reconciliation to ensure a lasting peace, noting that disputes must be quickly settled, Lusa reports.
“National political players have to get involved in national reconciliation, because this has not yet been addressed in the discussions between Renamo and the government,” Burgsdorff said in Maputo on Friday.
Mozambican political forces and civil society must continue to define a model of reconciliation and reconstruction of the social fabric in the wake of the various armed conflicts that have affected the country.
“Reconciliation is a change of mind-set that needs to happen at all levels,” he emphasised, highlighting the need for women’s involvement in the country’s pacification.
According to Lusa, Sven von Burgsdorff said that the Assembly of the Republic should move quickly on the process of amendment to the constitution, aimed at deepening the country’s decentralisation.
On the other hand, the demilitarisation of the residual force of the Mozambican National Resistance (Renamo) must also progress faster, he added.
“I think it is very important to move as quickly as possible to the demilitarisation and demobilisation of Renamo while at the same time moving forward with tangible results in the country’s decentralisation so as to devolve power to points from where the Mozambican people can be governed as efficiently as possible,” von Burgsdorff said.
Parliamentary commissions are currently analysing a proposed constitutional amendment handed over by the Mozambican president, Filipe Nyusi, last February, the result of a consensus reached between the president and Renamo leader Afonso Dhlakama as part of the negotiations for lasting peace in Mozambique.
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Source: Lusa
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