The Samora Machel Military Academy in the northern Mozambican city of Nampula on Thursday graduated a group of 70 students trained by the academy on various degree level courses.The courses covered several military specialisms, including motorized infantry, military aviation, artillery and administration and logistics. This is the second group of students to complete their courses at the academy.Addressing the graduation ceremony, Mozambican President Armando Guebuza recalled that, in the context of a multiparty democracy and the rule of law, the armed forces owe their loyalty to the Constitution, to the nation and to the legally instituted civilian political power.This subordination of military power to legitimate civilian political power was the cornerstone “for the consolidation of democratic values and principles, for the prevalence of peace as the highest value of our society, and for political stability”, declared Guebuza. These were the indispensable prerequisites “for the consolidation of national unity and for the victory we desire in the struggle against poverty”.Guebuza repeated the message he had given on Wednesday, when closing a training course for Special Forces in the port city of Nacala, that the Mozambican army must prepare to meet new threats to security such as piracy, and trafficking in people, drugs and guns.He urged the Academy graduates to strengthen the relations between the military and the population, to ensure that society always regarded the country’s military institutions with sympathy and admiration. The same values should guide Mozambican troops when they were on peace-keeping missions abroad.”This is how the military has been contributing towards strengthening our diplomacy, and to raising the prestige of this motherland of heroes in the community of nations”, Guebuza said. “This prestige has the effect of creating more international sympathy for our agenda to mobilise more partners to join us in our efforts to free ourselves from poverty”.
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