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The
international mediators who thrashed out a settlement to the
short-lived military coup in Sao Tome and Principe are satisfied
with the return to constitutional order on the impoverished west
African archipelago, Congo's foreign minister said yesterday.
Under the deal reached Wednesday, deposed President Fradique de
Menezes was allowed to return to office in return for an amnesty
for the coup leaders and government concessions on greater
transparency and power sharing.
"President Fradique de Menezes has reassumed all his prerogatives,
as has as the national assembly," said Congolese Foreign Minister
Rodlphe Adada, whose country currently heads the Economic Community
of Central African States (Ceeac).
During the negotiations with the mediators, the rebel leaders had
demanded solutions to the widespread problem of poverty on the
islands and the issue of how to manage Sao Tome's unexploited oil
reserves, which could transform the country.
Adada said that these issues would be the subject of the national
reconciliation forum foreseen by the agreement to end the
coup.
The international mediators, who took part in three days of intense
negotiations with the rebels, were made up of representatives from
Angola, Brazil, Cape-Verde, Congo, Gabon, Mozambique, Nigeria,
Portugal, South Africa and the US.
De Menezes was deposed on July 16 in a bloodless coup by military
officers, who took advantage of his absence on a visit to Nigeria.
– Sapa-AFP.
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