Peace mediators do not have much time to stay in Mozambique – Jacinto Veloso

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Peace mediators do not have much time to stay in Mozambique – Jacinto Veloso

11:53 CAT | 21 Jul 2016

The Joint Committee and international mediators will meet in a hotel in Maputo today to start discussing the agenda for the meeting between the President and the leader of Renamo.

Underlining the urgency, Jacinto Veloso, head of the government delegation and Joint Committee spokesman, said that the idea was to act as soon as possible, since the mediators do not have much time to stay in the country.

The international mediators convened with the Joint Committee for the first time yesterday at a meeting described by Veloso as serving to welcome them and convey the openness of the president, Filipe Jacinto Nyusi, and the Renamo leader, Afonso Dhlakama, to find a definitive solution to the ongoing conflict in Mozambique.

Veloso said that the Joint Committee sees the group of international mediators as a unit not divided into parts according to whether they were suggested by the president or the leader of Renamo, and that this would help achieve the objective of putting an end to armed actions.

He said that at their first meeting the commission had expressed its confidence in the ability of the mediators, who went on afterwards to meet separately with the delegations of the two parties to acquaint themselves with each side’s concerns.

Before the meeting with the mediators, the Joint Committee, already enlarged to 12 members, met in a session described as having served to augment common ground among members and exchange views on subjects in the agenda.

These include Renamo governance in the six provinces where it claims to have secured an overall majority in the general elections of 2014; the Defence and Security Forces; disarmament of the main opposition party in Mozambique and reintegration of Renamo’s armed men into the Defence and Security Forces.

Source: Notícias