• Country/entity

  Guinea-Bissau
  

• Region

  Africa (excl MENA)
  

• Agreement name

  Ceasefire Agreement in Guinea-Bissau

• Date

  26 Aug 1998

• Agreement status

  Multiparty signed/agreed

• Interim arrangement

  Yes

• Agreement/conflict level

  Intrastate/intrastate conflict ( Guinea-Bissau Civil War (1998 - 1999) )

• Stage

  Ceasefire/related

• Conflict nature

  Government

• Peace process

  Guinea Bissau peace process

• Parties

  Unsigned transcript of the agreement but parties are as follows:
  For the Government of the Republic of Guinea-Bissau (Signed)
  For the self-proclaimed military junta (Signed)

• Third parties

  Unsigned transcript of the agreement but parties are as follows: For the ECOWAS Group of Seven: (Signed) [Summary: the ECOWAS Group of Seven is comprised of the Ministers of Foreign Affairs from the following member states: Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Nigeria and Senegal.] For the CPLP Contact Group (Signed) [Summary: the Ministerial Contact Group of the Community of Portuguese-speaking Countries is comprised of the following member states: Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, (Guinea-Bissau), Mozambique, Portugal, and São Tomé and Príncipe].

• Description

  This agreement transforms the truce declared under the memorandum of understanding of 26 July 1998 into a ceasefire. The agreement lists the Annexes to the memorandum of understanding of 26 July 1998 as integral parts of this ceasefire agreement. Coding for these annexes has been done under the Memorandum of Understanding of 26/07/1998 and is not replicated here.

• Agreement document

  GW_980826_CeasefireAgreementGuineaBissau.pdf | Download PDF

Groups

Gender

State definition

Governance

Power sharing

Human rights and equality

Rights related issues

Rights institutions

Justice sector reform

Socio-economic reconstruction

Land, property and environment

Security sector

Transitional justice

Implementation

Ceasefire agreement in Guinea-Bissau

Under the joint chairmanship of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and the Community of Portuguese-Speaking Countries (CPLP), the Government of Guinea-Bissau and the Self-denominated Military Junta met in Praia on 25 August 1998 and decided to transform the truce agreed upon in the Memorandum of Understanding signed at Bissau on 26 July 1998 into a ceasefire based on the following principles:

Article 1

The Government of Guinea-Bissau and the Self-denominated Military Junta agree to an immediate ceasefire based on the principles indicated below:

Reaffirmation of the public recognition of democratic institutions and legality;

Freezing of their respective military positions held at the time of the entry into force of the Memorandum of Understanding of 26 July 1998;

Reopening the Osvaldo Vieira Airport in order to facilitate the viability of humanitarian aid, the logistic support to the ceasefire observation mission and the return of refugees;

Deployment of observation and interposition forces, to be defined through negotiations;

Strengthening of the opening of humanitarian corridors;

Creation of conditions which may facilitate the return of refugees and resettlement of displaced persons.

Article 2

Annexes I and II to the Memorandum of Understanding dated 26 July 1998 are an integral part of this Agreement.

Article 3

This Agreement will enter into force on 26 August 1998, at 2 a.m.

DONE at Praia, 26 August 1998.

For the Government of the Republic of Guinea-Bissau:

(Signed)

For the Self-denominated Military Junta:

(Signed)

For the ECOWAS Group of Seven:

(Signed)

For the CPLP Contact Group:

(Signed)