13. In an effort to build the legal framework for national defence, a legal package was passed which, among others, included the rules which regulate issues on military careers, from incorporation to reform namely the Decree N° 4/98, of 17 February, on Military Statute of the Armed Forces. This legal tool, according to the Government, defines, among other issues, rules for the passage from active soldier to Reservist or Retired soldier, such as age limit and service time. Based on this rules significant number of military officers become Retired or Reservist, regardless their origin, under the terms of the Rome Agreements. 14. According to the Government Letter MDN n°2109SP/MDM/2012, it was on this basis that from 1999 to 2012 of the total number of military officers that passed to the situation of reserve, 92% are from FAM/FPLM and only 8% came from the former RENAMO guerrilla forces. It also indicates that in the context of strengthening of the senior structures of the FADM command, from April 2008, priority was given to the nomination of officials from the signatory parties of the Accord. Thus, from the RENAMO side came the Deputy Chief of Staff of the FADM, Air Force of Mozambique Command and Chief of Staff of the Army, Deputy Inspector of the FADM and Deputy Directors of the General the Departments of the General Staff of the FADM. 15. However, despite the mentioned fact, the Mozambican society has been witnessing and questioning why there are armed men from RENAMO who continue with and make use of warlike material as it happened recently, in March 2012, in Nampula province and in the Maringué district at Sofala province, where, in the case of Maringué an ordinary citizen was detained for interrogations. It should be referred that in Gorongosa district at Sofala province RENAMO maintain heavy warlike material and its main military base were armed men are practically “in shelter-trench”. 16. In addition, on the 17th of October 2012, the leader of RENAMO arrived in the former RENAMO military base in Gorongosa with a group of former guerrilla fighters and in a press conference indicated that he was there to demand the full implementation of the General Peace Agreement (GPA) by FRELIMO, depolitization of public Services, among other complains. 17. Likewise, it ought to be stressed that there have been meetings between the President of the Republic and the leader of RENAMO, of which the last one took place at the beginning of 2012, after another one that was held on the 8th of December of 2011, in an attempt to find a platform to resolve the issues identified by RENAMO. Other meetings also took place at the end of 2012 between RENAMO and the Government representatives. However, RENAMO interrupted its participation in such meetings allegedly because its counterpart is dealing with “highly important” issues with some kind of “lightness”. 18. From these facts it means that there is a challenge that the two sides must address urgently in this conflict by establishing more dialogue and resolve the issues that set them apart, as to achieve an effective lasting peace rather than the present “status quo” which takes the Mozambican population, and indeed some foreign investors, think that a possible return to armed conflict is imminent. 20