that oversees the area of Justice notes that progress is being made in referred area
since that matter is being dealt with in the development of legal reform in the country in
the domain of Strategic Legal Reform of the Judiciary Sector. It was also assured that
the outstanding international codes and standards are in their course for ratification and
those ratified by the Parliament (AR) are being implemented. The training of Judiciary
and legal practitioners on the impact of the international law on the Mozambican
legislation is also underway.
2. With regards to the recommendation of the APR Panel on the need for the country to
create a depositary for all international agreements to which Mozambique is signatory,
the Government ensured that the international agreements are remain deposited in the
Ministry of Justice, and their consultation is open to the public without any hindrance
whatsoever.
3. Meanwhile, as it is referred to in Chapter II, the Parliament also introduced a Department
that, among other issues, preserve and follow up the implementation of all norms and
agreements ratified by the Parliament.
4. Notwithstanding the Government´s efforts to integrate international norms into domestic
legislation, as well as ratification of international codes and standards which are
available for public consultation, challenges are imposed to the country on regard to the
effective implementation of international legislation for example, legislation on children
and environment which deserves more attention by the judiciary practitioners although
judges on regular basis benefit from training in these areas and obtained technical
knowledge on such legislation. The examples of the above are the Judges orders
produced by competent courts.
Objective 1: Prevent and reduce intra and interstate conflicts
The APR Panel recommended the country to pay, as a matter of urgency, the outstanding
pensions of demobilized soldiers and assist those who are still not integrated (i); Disarm
RENAMO guards, (ii); Establish modalities for attaining lasting and genuine reconciliation
between FRELIMO and RENAMO, and put an end to discriminatory political, economic and
social policies (iii) and to remove FRELIMO party cells from public Institutions (iv).
5. In relation to the APR Panel´s recommendation on the need for urgent payment of
pensions and reintegrate the former demobilized soldiers in order mitigate potential
conflict, the Government assured that in the context of State Budget, payment of
pensions are being made to the former soldiers both from FRELIMO and RENAMO.
Indeed, and in the context of Social Protection, the Government fixed in 2010, 4.937
pensions under the implementation of the new General Statute for Civil Servants and
State Agents (GdM, 2010). As for 2011 and as an example, under the Law N°3/2002, of
17 of January, about 6.140 processes were dealt with and fixed 8.010 pensions of the
former soldiers in the provinces of Cabo Delgado, Zambézia and Tete. (GdM, 2011).
6. Apart from such efforts, the Government is engaged in the implementation of a social
inclusion programme oriented to the former soldiers. This is done through
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