According to the Zitamar news website, the Mozambican government “has
proposed a further three outside mediators to take part in peace talks
with armed opposition party Renamo, in addition to the three mediators
invited on the insistence of Renamo”.
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| From left to right: Jakaya Kikwete, Quett Masire and Tony Blair |
They are Jakaya Kikwete, former
president of Tanzania, Quett Masire, former president of Botswana, and
an un-named personage from former British prime minister’s Tony Blair
Foundation.
Invitations have been sent last week to
the European Union, the Catholic church and the South African
government, whose representatives, which Afonso Dhlakama had said were
to arrive in Maputo yesterday, are not known so far, reported O País on
Monday.
Meanwhile, State News Agency AIM, has
reported on Friday, June 17, that “the joint commission set up by the
Mozambican government and by the rebel movement Renamo to prepare a
face-to-face meeting between President Filipe Nyusi and Renamo leader
Afonso Dhlakama proposed on Friday that observers should witness the
talks seeking to re-establish effective peace in the country.”
According to the same source, “Speaking
to reporters after the end of the fifth session of the joint commission,
on June 17, the head of the Renamo team, Jose Manteigas, said there was
consensus over the introduction of observers into the dialogue.”
“It is the understanding of the joint commission that observers could
be invited into this process”, said Manteigas. “There are two figures –
the figure of facilitators (mediators), and the figure of observers”.
Up until Thursday, June 16, the
government had opposed involving foreign mediators or observers in a
dispute between Mozambicans, reported AIM, adding that, at a rally in
the southern city of Matola on Thursday, June 16, Nyusi had announced
the reversal of this policy.
“If the problem is to have somebody else present while we are
discussing, then let Dhlakama come with whoever he likes, and we will
talk so that he ends the attacks”, Nyusi said. “Let him come with these
people, and we shall see what will happen. I am ready”, said the
President, cited by AIM.
In late May, the Mozambican government
and Renamo resumed negotiations on the political and military crisis in
Mozambique, the main opposition party having abandoned dialogue with the
executive in late 2015 on the grounds of lack of progress.
Mozambique experienced a worsening of
political violence in recent months, with clashes between Renamo and
defence and security forces and mutual accusations of abduction and
assassination of party members, and attacks on military and civilian
targets in the centre of the country attributed by the authorities to
the opposition’s armed wing.
Zitamar / O País / AIM / Lusa / Club of Mozambique
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