Mozambique peace dialogue: Mediators to go meet Dhlakama in Gorongosa

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Mozambique peace dialogue: Mediators to go meet Dhlakama in Gorongosa

10:00 CAT | 15 Aug 2016

Notícias / Mario Rafaelli, mediator in the dialogue process for the EU (L) and Jacinto Veloso, head of the government's delegation in the dialogue (R)

Peace dialogue mediators are to travel to Gorongosa in Sofala in the coming days to meet the Renamo leader Afonso Dhlakama in order to continue discussions about the cessation of hostilities which began in the Friday Joint Commission session.

The Joint Commission will also be responsible for studying the mechanisms necessary for the safe visit of mediators to Gorongosa, Notícias reports, adding that it understands “the government is ready to create a security corridor so that mediators can travel freely to where the leader of Renamo is supposed to be. Mediators may be willing to be accompanied by journalists”.

Speaking to the media as spokesman of yesterday’s session of the Joint Commission, José Manteigas, head of the RENAMO delegation, said that a substantial approach to the point on the cessation of hostilities, the second on the agenda agreed by the parties, has not yet been worked out.

The commission concluded discussions on Friday on the first item on the agenda – Renamo’s demand to govern the six provinces where it claims to have won the general election in 2014 – having assumed the task of drafting a proposal that addresses decentralisation to be submitted to the Assembly of the Republic, Manteigas also announced.

The decisions resulting from the session were taken after the mediators and the government and Renamo Joint Commission delegations shared their positions and rationales on the governance of the six provinces.

The next meeting of the Joint Commission takes place on Monday and will discuss a document containing the proposals engendered in the last session’s two decisions.

Source: Notícias