Mozambique: Congratulations to Guterres

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Mozambique: Congratulations to Guterres

11:20 CAT | 23 Jun 2021

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Mozambique’s President Filipe Nyusi wants to contribute to international peace and security in the new mandate of António Guterres as Secretary-General of the United Nations, he said in a congratulatory message released on Wednesday.

“It is our fundamental objective to contribute, in a modest but robust way, in light of our history and experience, to the effort in the search for paths to international peace and security,” he said, regarding Mozambique being a candidate, “for the first time in its history, for the seat of non-permanent member of the UN Security Council for the 2023-2024 term.”

The UN Security Council comprises 15 members, five permanent and 10 non-permanent, elected for two-year terms in which five are replaced each year.

In the election, there is a fixed number of seats for the different regional groups into which the UN General Assembly is divided, and the Southern African Development Community (SADC) has already endorsed Mozambique’s candidacy.

Part of Cabo Delgado in the north of the Lusophone country, an area rich in gas and other resources, is the focus of an armed insurgency, partly claimed by the “jihadist” group Islamic State – a three-and-a-half-year-old conflict that has killed about 3,000 people according to the ACLED conflict registration project and with 732,000 displaced according to the UN.

Filipe Nyusi addressed a message of congratulations to António Guterres for his re-election on Friday in the post of UN secretary-general, considering the reappointment as a “testimony to the excellent work done over the past five years”.

“The priority areas of the United Nations, fortunately, coincide with the areas that my government elected for the present five-year term, namely, the issues of international peace and security, general and complete disarmament, human rights, the fight against terrorism and violent extremism as well as the 2030 Agenda that embodies the Sustainable Development Goals,” Nyusi concluded.

The Mozambican head of state said the main challenges were “the effects of the humanitarian crisis caused by the Covid-19 pandemic” and the “economic recession, as a consequence of the health crisis.” Still, he believed that they would be overcome with the “experienced leadership” of Guterres.

Mozambique has had a total of 852 deaths from Covid-19 and 72,775 cases, of which 96% have been recovered, and 78 are still hospitalised.

Source: Lusa