Bissau, 3 May 2016 - Participants in the two-day talks on stability - "No Mistida i Stability" (we want stability, in Creole) which took place on 27-28 March at the National Assembly in Bissau, organized by UNIOGBIS, recommended that the organs of sovereignty and the nation’s resources to sign a stability pact around national priorities guaranteeing the governability of the country by the end of the legislature and for a period of 10 years.

The work brought together 200 participants - from all sectors of society – to discuss the cooperation mechanisms between the powers provided in the constitution, reliable confidence generating mechanisms and monitoring instruments and national ownership towards a stability pact. At the end they took several recommendations that will serve as a basis for the preparation of a possible stability pact to be signed by all political parties and then deposited at the Supreme Court.

Participants considered positive the two days of work and urged the competent authorities to put in practice the recommendations, namely that the sovereign bodies appoint three independent personalities to draw up a stability pact to ensure the governance of the country at least until the end of this legislature.

To the representative of the organization "Mindjeris di Guinea bó lanta" (Stand up women of Guinea), Nelvina Barreto, "I didn’t have high expectations as I have participated in several conferences of the kind, unfortunately our country is fertile in times of crisis like this one, and it seems to me also that only in times of crises that we gathered to talk about our lives, a situation that must change."

The Health minister, Cadi Seidi, said in her turn that "any encounter that facilitates dialogue, that facilitates understanding, but understanding in the basis of truth, understanding based on  justice and respect of the laws and the constitution of the republic is always welcome because  only then we can vent our sorrows and at the same time reaching a consensus to get out of the situation we are. "

The traditional leader of Suzana, Queba Djedju, one of the 10 traditional leaders who came from all regions to attend the meeting considered that the only solution to the crisis is that “the Presidency and the Prime Minister should sit at the same table.”

The SRSG Miguel Trovoada considered that the results were beyond expectations and that the conclusions include clues and concrete proposals, and that it is now up to the authorities to move forward.

"I leave the country with the hope that the crisis that exists today may have its days numbered if those who run the country for a better life of its people understand that they should so proceed," said Trovoada in the closing ceremony of the conference.