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US can help Mozambique achieve peace – Nyusi
3:31 CAT | 19 Sep 2016
Notícias / President Nyusi addressing a meeting promoted by the Corporate Council on Africa’s Mozambique Working Group, in Washington, on Thursday, September 15, 2016.
President Nyusi says that Mozambicans have to give dialogue priority in the search for peace, and suggests that the US can help.
“We (Mozambicans) will join forces with this brother country to see if we can secure peace soon. Of course, the route chosen by all of us is dialogue. We will prefer and advance it,” President Nyusi told Mozambican journalists at the end of a four-day visit to Washington and Houston in the United States.
According to the president, peace was one of the issues addressed in meetings with representatives of political and economic sectors during his visit.
Particular focus falls on those held with the US Secretary of State John Kerry, Secretary for Security Affairs Susan Rice, the director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Christine Lagarde and President of World Bank, Jim Yong Kim.
The president also met investors In the two US cities, both those who already have interests in Mozambique and others participating in business forums presenting the country’s potential.
According to the president, those he talked to said they were dismayed that, in a country where regular elections are held, there is still a political party bearing arms. President Nyusi is said to have come to the conclusion that the United States follows the situation in Mozambique closely.
Public Debt
President Nyusi said that measured discussed by his government and the International Monetary Fund during visits by Prime Minister Carlos Agostinho do Rosário, and Minister of Finance, Adriano Maleane to Washington were reviewed during his meeting with IMF director Christine Lagarde.
According to Nyusi, the conclusion reached in the 30-minute meeting was that the measures recommended by the IMF to clarify the debt contracted by the state without public knowledge were being conducted in a positive way.
Nyusi said that he had spoken to Lagarde about the need for the country to take steps to reverse its being blocked financially due to lack of transparency.
The IMF’s proposal of an independent forensic audit of the public finances was abandoned at the meeting, with Lagarde agreeing that the exercise could be conducted at three companies that received funds and directed by the Attorney General’s office.
Positive Feedback from Investors
The meetings with businessmen and woman were very productive, according to the president, with a positive reaction from the business community in the two cities he visited. Many businesses there already have investments in Mozambique, such as Anadarko Petroleum and Exxon Mobil, the latter recently having recently won a tender for natural gas research and the former already involved for several years in gas exploration operations in the Rovuma Basin, where it discovered reserves of 200 trillion cubic feet of liquefied gas.
Noticias has learned here that many American business people are interested in investing in various areas in the country, mainly due to the greater information flow reaching the country, and despite the news of the instability prevailing in some areas. As for those who do not know the country they expressed their readiness to come to invest in Mozambique.
The President is currently in New York to attend the General Assembly of the United Nations.
Source: Notícias
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