Interview with Mozambican academic Lourenço do Rosário, one of the mediators who tried for months to bridge the gap between Renamo and the Government of Frelimo.
Lourenço do Rosário is rector of the Polytechnic University in Maputo .The Mozambican academic, Lourenço do Rosário is rector of the Polytechnic University in Maputo and one of two mediators in the ongoing negotiations to bring peace and understanding between the government of Frelimo and Renamo in the past two years.The other is the Mozambican Anglican Bishop,Dinis Sengulane.
None are official mediators because "there has never been official appointment of mediators," says Lourenço do Rosário in an interview with PUBLICO in Lisbon on the sidelines of the Second Conference on the Future of the Portuguese Language in the World System, where he was a participant on the first day.
"Renamo wanted to force the key, but the government found that the conditions for a mediator without dialogue were not exhausted." Renamo returned in recent days,and wants an external, independent mediatiors for effective dialogueu
But this dialogue is possible only after "both parties create conditions for Dhlakama to reappear freely in public life," says Lourenço do Rosário. What happened in Beira city when Dhlakamas residence was invaded and his guardsmen forcibly disarmed,he emphasized,was a provocative military operation. "Mozambique lives an undeclared war situation."
Lourenço do Rosário is rector of the Polytechnic University in Maputo .The Mozambican academic, Lourenço do Rosário is rector of the Polytechnic University in Maputo and one of two mediators in the ongoing negotiations to bring peace and understanding between the government of Frelimo and Renamo in the past two years.The other is the Mozambican Anglican Bishop,Dinis Sengulane.
None are official mediators because "there has never been official appointment of mediators," says Lourenço do Rosário in an interview with PUBLICO in Lisbon on the sidelines of the Second Conference on the Future of the Portuguese Language in the World System, where he was a participant on the first day.
"Renamo wanted to force the key, but the government found that the conditions for a mediator without dialogue were not exhausted." Renamo returned in recent days,and wants an external, independent mediatiors for effective dialogueu
But this dialogue is possible only after "both parties create conditions for Dhlakama to reappear freely in public life," says Lourenço do Rosário. What happened in Beira city when Dhlakamas residence was invaded and his guardsmen forcibly disarmed,he emphasized,was a provocative military operation. "Mozambique lives an undeclared war situation."
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