Nyusi recebe em audiência Presidentes dos Parlamentos da Comunidade dos Países de Língua Portuguesa (CPLP).
Maputo, 23 Jul (AIM) – At least 5,200 former Renamo guerrillas are receiving pensions under the Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration (DDR) programme, agreed between the government and Renamo, once an apartheid-sponsored rebel movement, and now Mozambique’s main opposition party.
According to Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi, who was speaking on Monday, when greeting the heads of parliament of the Community of Portuguese Speaking Countries (PALOP), who are meeting in Maputo, another 700 former guerrillas are still waiting for their pensions.
“In Mozambique the main weapon we use to manage our problems is dialogue”, said Nyusi. “We had direct dialogue with Renamo at the time to stop the conflicts that were never ending and we succeeded. Last year, for the first time, we had elections without any party having an armed force”.
“We’re in the reintegration phase. This will be a long phase”, he added.
The President explained that the direct dialogue between Renamo and the government had resulted in the approval of legislation on decentralization, which determines the election of provincial governors and the implementation of the DDR process.
“Some of the demobilized don’t have any documents, but even so, the government continues to prioritize dialogue with all the living forces in society”, he said.
According to Nyusi, the Mozambican parliament, the Assembly of the Republic, has been flexible in creating and approving laws regarding decentralization.
Regarding the terrorism that has been plaguing some districts of the northern province of Cabo Delgado, the President said “we have been living with this cancer and all our friends are in solidarity with Mozambique and, in previous CPLP sessions, at government level, the countries have shown solidarity. But here we also had the direct intervention of the SADC countries. They have now ended their mandate, but we continue with the armed forces of Rwanda.”
Nyusi told the CPLP heads of parliament that some towns, including Mocímboa da Praia and Quissanga, which had once been occupied by terrorists, are now under government control and the population is gradually returning.
(AIM)
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