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The session scheduled for today’s peace negotiations in Mozambique was postponed until next week at the request of the Government, the head of the Mozambican National Resistance delegation (Renamo) said in the talks.
“We were on site as scheduled, but the government delegation asked us to adjourn the meeting until next week,” José Manteigas told Lusa, adding that the Renamo delegation had not been informed of the reason for the postponement.
José Manteigas said that the delegations continue to try to harmonise the new proposal of the international mediators and the “package of principles regarding the process of decentralisation”, within the scope of the main opposition party’s demand to govern in the provinces where it claims electoral victory.
“We are doing everything we can to reach consensus on the agreed deadline,” said the head of Renamo’s delegation, in reference to the mediators’ intention to obtain a consensus and a document to be sent to parliament by the end of November.
This would be the first meeting of the entire joint commission of the peace negotiations in Mozambique at this stage of the dialogue, given that mediators favoured bilateral meetings with the parties in the previous sessions.
Lusa contacted the coordinator of the mediation team, Mario Raffaeli, who simply said that the meeting had been moved to next week.
The new version results from the articulation of the responses presented at the beginning of this phase of the dialogue by the Government and Renamo delegations to the proposal by the mediators.
In addition to Renamo’s demand to govern in six provinces and the immediate cessation of clashes, the agenda for the negotiation process integrates the separation between the Defence and Security Forces, including the police and state intelligence services, and political parties and the disarmament of the armed wing of the Renamo and its reintegration into civilian life.
The central and northern region of Mozambique has been the scene of clashes between the armed wing of the main opposition party and the Defence and Security Forces, with mutual denunciations of abductions and assassinations of political leaders on both sides.
Renamo in turn accuses the Defence and Security Forces of conducting military operations against party positions.
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