• Country/entity

  Mozambique
  

• Region

  Africa (excl MENA)
  

• Agreement name

  Protocol on Detailed Agenda

• Date

  28 May 1991

• Agreement status

  Multiparty signed/agreed

• Interim arrangement

  Yes

• Agreement/conflict level

  Intrastate/intrastate conflict ( Mozambique Civil War (1976 – 1992) and RENAMO Insurgency (2012 – ) )

• Stage

  Pre-negotiation/process

• Conflict nature

  Government

• Peace process

  Mozambique process in the 90s

• Parties

  For the delegation of the GRM: Armando Emílio Guebuza
  For the delegation of RENAMO: Raul Manuel Domingos

• Third parties

  The mediators: Jaime Goncalves, Archbishop of Beira, Andrea Riccardi and Matteo Zuppi

• Description

  An agreement setting out the agreed agenda for talks.

• Agreement document

  MZ_910528_Detailed Agenda.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

Protocol on Detailed Agenda

On 28 May 1991 the delegation of the Government of the Republic of Mozambique, headed by

Armando Emílio Guebuza, Minister of Transport and Communications and composed of

Teodato Hunguana, Minister of Labour, Aguiar Mazula, Minister of State Administration, and

Francisco Madeira, Diplomatic Adviser to the President of the Republic, and the RENAMO

delegation, headed by Raul Manuel Domingos, Chief of Foreign Relations Department and

composed of Vicente Zacarias Ululu, Chief of the Information Department, Anselmo Victor,

Chief of the Political Affairs Department, Agostinho Semende Murrial, Deputy Chief of the

Political Affairs Department, João Francisco Almirante, member of the President’s Office, met at

Rome in the San Egídio Community Headquarters, in the presence of the mediators, Jaime

Goncalves, Archbishop of Beira, Andrea Riccardi and Matteo Zuppi of the Community of San

Egídio.

Based on the proposal presented by the mediators, the two parties agreed on the details of the

agenda approved on 10 November 1990 as follows:

1. Political Parties Act

a) Criteria and arrangements for the formation and recognition of political parties.

2. Electoral Act

a) Freedom of the press and access to the media.

b) Freedom of association, expression and political communication.

c) Freedom of movement and residence.

d) Return of Mozambican refugees and displaced people and their social reintegration.

e) Electoral Procedures:

a democratic, impartial and pluralistic voting system.

f) Guarantees for the electoral process and role of international observers.

3. Military questions

a) A non-party national army:

criteria for its formation, composition and size.

b) Withdrawal of foreign troops from Mozambican territory.

c) Activities of private and irregular armed groups.

d) Functioning of the SNASP.

e) Depoliticization and restructuring of the police forces.

f) Economic and Social reintegration of demobilized soldiers.

4. Cease-fire

a) Arrangements for the cease-fire and the freeing of prisoners, except for those being held

for ordinary crimes.

b) Organs and arrangements for observing, supervising and controlling the cease-fire and

international role in the process.

c) Operational timetable for the cease-fire.

5. Guarantees

a) Timetable for the conduct of the electoral process.

b) Politico-Military Commission to supervise the cease-fire and monitor respect for and

implementation of the agreements between the parties within the framework of these

negotiations;

its compositions and powers.

c) Specific guarantees for the period from the cease-fire to the holding of the elections.

6. Donors’ conference

a) Organisation of a conference of donor countries to finance the electoral process and

emergency programmes for reintegrating the displaced and refugee population.

7. Signature of the agreed documents and the final Protocol.

In witness whereof, the Parties have decided to sign this Protocol.

For the delegation of the GRM:

Armando Emílio Guebuza

For the delegation of RENAMO:

Raul Manuel Domingos

The mediators:

Jaime Goncalves, Archbishop of Beira, Andrea Riccardi and Matteo Zuppi

Dome at San Egídio, Rome, on 28 May 1991