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MOZAMBIQUE MAY FAIL TO PRESENT ITS APRM REPORT ON TIME
(16/07/2008)
Maputo, 15 Jul (AIM) - Mozambique may be unable to present its self-assessment report for the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) during the next African Union ordinary summit in Addis Ababa in January 2009.
This situation is blamed on the cancellation of the visit of an APRM mission to the country that was due on 28 July. The mission's task is to analyse the findings contained in the country's self-assessment report.
Planning and Development Minister Aiuba Cuereneia, who is also the APRM focal point in Mozambique, said that postponing the visit of this mission was due to the replacement of some of the members of the APRM panel of eminent personalities appointed by the organization's secretariat.
It is yet not known when Bethuel Kiplagat, the Kenyan diplomat appointed to assess the Mozambican situation, will reschedule the visit with his team.
"Some of the members of the panel of personalities should be replaced, and the APRM chairperson has suspended the panel's work. We were informed that the mission will no longer come on the scheduled dates (28 July to 23 August), and we are waiting for the announcement of new dates", Cuereneia told reporters on Monday.
Cuereneia added that "before the January summit there will be an AU extraordinary meeting, where three new members will be appointed for the panel. Meanwhile, we will wait for a new decision by the secretariat".
This delay changes the entire programme that had been drawn up from July until next January. It is a decision that may not allow Mozambican President Armando Guebuza to present the document to his counterparts during the January summit.
Furthermore the forthcoming municipal elections complicate matters. The election campaign, the vote and the count will take up all of November, and the final results might not be announced until November. During this period there will be no conditions for any APRM assessment of the situation in the country.
If Mozambique fails to present its report by January, it might be able to slot it into the agenda for the AU meeting in July 2009. But if some other unpredictable event happens, the report can only be presented in July 2010, because of the Mozambican general elections scheduled for late 2009.
The chairperson of the National APRM Mozambican Forum, Lourenco do Rosario, described it as frustrating when such constraints happen after the work has been done, and compromise the established deadlines.
"The postponement of the mission upsets us, because we had agreed a programme and now we have to postpone the beginning of the second phase. An electoral process is starting soon and during this period one cannot talk of any assessment because there will be no objectivity. A period of tension characterises such moments and there will be no conditions for assessment", he said.
The Forum started work in July 2007 among civil society to explain the importance of the APRM and encourage participation. After this came the field work, where about 4,300 households across the country answered surveys, and meetings were held with various groups, and with political and social personalities.
This work led to the production of the self-assessment report, which has been approved by the National Forum and was submitted to the government in March.
The next step is for the APRM Panel to make its own assessment, talking to civil society, to the government at all levels and then producing its own recommendations. Following this, the report will be presented to the AU heads of state.
The APRM is an instrument of governance voluntarily entered into by AU member states. Its purpose is to encourage member states to ensure that their policies and practices are guided by agreed values, codes and norms.
(AIM)
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