1992 agreement is the solution to conflicts

The retired archbishop of Beira Jaime Gonçalves, mediator of the agreement sealed in 1992 the war in Mozambique, argues that the document is still the solution to conflicts in the country and should be revisited by the Church. "The document of the General Peace Agreement remains the most current and is still light to the solution of conflicts in Mozambique," he said in an interview with Lusa the mediator of the Mozambican Bishops' Conference and the Vatican on the understanding reached on 04 October 1992 in Rome between the government and Renamo (Mozambique National Resistance) .More than two decades after the historic agreement, which marked the end of 16 years of civil war in Mozambique, the country lives under the threat of new conflict between the same protagonists and Jaime Gonçalves believes that the Catholic Church is not entitled to ignore "appeared new conflict and, at this time, people ask the question: where is the Catholic Church.", said the retired archbishop of Beira, adding that every day sees the Anglican Dinis Sengulane a central role in mediating the crisis between the government and Renamo but elements of their confissão.

O people Mozambique expects a new dialogue but also questions "where are those who have made the reconciliation," said the prelate, noting that the Rome agreements " were the work of the Catholic Church. "" that is why we speak of the Catholic Church must renew our commitment to reconcile the Mozambican people ", stated Jaime Gonçalves, remembering at the same time these processes have" their slowness ".The opposition Renamo does not recognize the results of the general elections of October 2014, won by Frelimo (Mozambique Liberation front), in power since independence and threatens to take by force six provinces of the center and north of the country, and request mediation of President south African President Jacob Zuma, and the Catholic Church. For Jaime Gonçalves, the roots of worsening political violence in Mozambique began, however, more cedo.Após the Comprehensive Peace Agreement, the United Nations advised that there was only one army under threat of new war, made up of men from both sides and that Renamo could keep an armed security to protect their leaders until the first democratic elections in 1994.This security problem, according to Jaime Gonçalves, "remains today," arguing that the entry of Armando Guebuza, in 2004, to Mozambican presidency, replacing Joaquim Chissano, who sees himself as a "moderate", led to the breakdown of the Renamo.

Guebuza men, chief negotiators of the government in Rome, "never accepted the dialogue" and, with his rise to power, he said Archbishop emeritus, "Renamo men who had been integrated into the United Nations to unify the army were all put off" and the armed opposition safety was never desmantelada.Neste scenario, according to the mediator of Rome, Renamo was "a shirtless movement "with his men at home and" Guebuza did not accept, "a policy that classifies as" cunning and compromise "to the opposition" he began to ask? what a joke is this? '. "According to the Mozambican religious, serious clashes in 2013 in Maringué in the north of Sofala province, they were caused by men who should be in the defense and security forces "but removed from there" and that Jaime Gonçalves is located as a landmark resumption of political violence in the country. "you can not realize the difficulty of dialogue, you can not understand this problem without Maringué" observou.Para former mediator, recent events make it clear that "the Comprehensive Peace Agreement is not being practiced Frelimo "and that incidents involving Afonso Dhlakama is the demonstration that prevails a hard line in the ruling party and the aim of eliminating the opposition leader." for me it was a terrible humiliation the President [Filipe Nyusi], the highest magistrate of the nation, go to Angola to learn how to kill Savimbi, "added the author of" the Peace of Mozambicans ".