• Country/entity

  Mozambique
  

• Region

  Africa (excl MENA)
  

• Agreement name

  Protocol I- Basic Principles

• Date

  18 Oct 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

  Implementation/renegotiation

• Conflict nature

  Government

• Peace process

  Mozambique process in the 90s

• Parties

  For the delegation of the Government of the Republic of Mozambique: Armando Emilio Guebuza;
  For the delegation of RENAMO: Raul Manuel Domingos;

• Third parties

  The mediators: Mario Raffaelli; Jaime Gonçalves; Andrea Riccardi; Matteo Zuppi;

• Description

  Protocol I of the General Peace Agreement for Mozambique. This protocol sets out the Basic Principles for negotiations, with the Government undertaking to refrain from any action contrary to the Protocols and Renamo agreeing to refrain from armed struggle. Both parties affirm their commitment to concluding the General Peace Agreement as soon as possible and agree the Protocols would form an integral part of that agreement.

• Agreement document

  MZ_911018_General Peace Agreement Protocol I Basic Principles.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 I

BASIC PRINCIPLES

On 18 October 1991, the delegation of the Government of the Republic of

Mozambique, headed by Armanda Emilio Guebuza, Minister of Transport and

Communications, and composed of Aguiar Mazula, Minister of State

Administration, Teodato Hunguana, Minister of Labour, and Francisco Madeira,

Diplomatic Adviser to the President of the Republic, and the delegation of

RENAMO, headed by Raul Manuel Domingos, Chief of the External Relations

Department, and composed of Vicente Zacarias Ululu, Chief of the Information

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

Department and Joao Francisco Almirante, member of the President's cabinet,

meeting at Rome in the context of the peace talks, in the presence of the

mediators, Mario Raffaelli, representative of the Government of the Italian

Republic and coordinator of the mediators, Jaime Gonçalves, Archbishop of

Beira, Andrea Riccardi and Matteo Zuppi of the Community of San Egidio;

Determined to secure the higher interests of the Mozambican people,

reaffirm that dialogue and collaboration are the indispensable means of

achieving a lasting peace in the country.

Accordingly:

1. The Government undertakes to refrain from taking any action that is

contrary to the provisions of the Protocols to be concluded and from adopting

laws or measures or applying existing laws which may be inconsistent with

those Protocols.

2. RENAMO, for its part, undertakes, beginning on the date of entry into

force of the cease-fire, to refrain from armed combat and instead to conduct

its political struggle in conformity with the laws in force, within the

framework of the existing State institutions and in accordance with the

conditions and guarantees established in the General Peace Agreement.

3. The two parties commit themselves to concluding as soon as possible a

General Peace Agreement, containing Protocols on each of the items of the

agenda adopted on 28 May 1991 and to take the necessary steps to that end.

In

that connection, the Government shall endeavour not to hamper international

travel by representatives of RENAMO and external contacts of RENAMO in

connection with the peace negotiations.

Contacts within the country between

RENAMO and the mediators or the members of the Joint Verif ication Commission

shall likewise be permitted for the same purpose.

Specific arrangements for

such contacts shall be made on a case-by-case hasis in response to requests by

the mediators to the Government.

4. The Protocols to be concluded in the course of these negotiations shall

form an integral part of the General Peace Agreement and shall enter into

force on the date of signature of the Agreement, with the exception of

paragraph 3 of this Protocol, which shall enter into force immediately.

5. The parties agree on the principle of establishing a commission to

supervise and monitor compliance with the General Peace Agreement.

The

commission shall be composed of representatives of the Government, RENAMO, the

United Nations and other organizations or Governments to be agreed upon

between the parties.

For the delegation of the Government

of the Republic of Mozambigue:

(Signed) Armando Emilio Guebuza

The mediators:

For the delegation of RENAMO:

(Signed) Raul Manuel Domingos

(Signed) Mario Raffaelli

(Signed) Jaime Gonçalves

(Signed) Andrea Riccardi

(Signed) Matteo Zuppi

Done at San Egidio, Rome, on 18 October 1991