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Carlos do Rosario

MAPUTO. — Mozambican Prime Minister, Carlos do Rosario, said yesterday in Maputo that war is a threat to the country’s historical patrimony. He was speaking at the opening ceremony of a scientific seminar on the research of history of the liberation movements of Southern African nations.

“We hear on all corners of the country, people calling for peace,” he said, adding that peace in Mozambique must be preserved to social and economic developments.

Mozambique is experiencing a political tension since the talks between the Frelimo-led government and the main opposition Renamo, stuck into a deadlock because Renamo still refused to provide the list of armed men to be integrated into armed forces and the police.

Afonso Dhlakama, the leader of Renamo, wants to govern six out of the country’s 10 provinces he snatched more votes in last October’s general elections which in the end were won by the ruling party Frelimo.

The two sides had been at war from 1976 to 1992, and been in clashes during most of the time in 2013 and 2014.

“Our people want to live in peace so that they can develop their daily activities freely,” said the Prime Minister.

The Maputo seminar involves researchers, former combatants of Mozambique’s struggle for independence, heads of provincial departments of history, among others.

Representatives from Tanzania, Angola, South Africa, Zimbabwe and Portugal, are attending the event which is going to end tomorrow, according to the director of the centre for research of the history of the Mozambican struggle for national independence, Carlos Silia. — Xinhua.