The country was thus faced with the need to stop, review and reflect on their political and social history and design a new step in its full progress through a reconciliation process that was baptized - Paths to Peace and Development Consolidation.

The idea emerged and was advocated for two years during the mandate of the late President Malam Bacai Sanha, but this ninth legislature, a new Committee was appointed to organize the National Conference in November this year where it will be decided which reconciliation model Guinea-Bissau is to implement. Father Domingos da Fonseca, who chairs the National Commission for the organization of the National Conference (COCN, Portuguese acronym), calls for consensus among all parties. "Is that the country will no longer be able to hold out for longer extreme poverty engendered by instability and dysfunctioning of the State," he said.

For his part, the coordinator of the NGO Effective Intervention, Idrozidro Barbosa, says: "from the moment we will realize that our differences affect development and that finding consensus at national level is possible, we will joint our efforts to bring Guinea-Bissau on top, then it is possible to find consensus, as consensus hinges on national reconciliation.

The chairman of the COCN Technical subcommittee, Fode Mané, ensured that "we need reconciliation among Guineans, we have to come together and work for the development of this country, for Guinean national unity is an imperative part of our culture."

Mané also said the commission is preparing the organization of regional conferences with the aim of spreading ideas for more ownership of the content, thus fulfilling one of the mandates of the commission which is to create a conducive environment for organizing the National Conference.

This regional conference round starts on 3 June. Until 5 July, conferences will take place in Bafatá, Gabu, Tombali and Quinara. From 10 to 12 June in Bolama, Bubaque, Oio and Cacheu, and on 17-19 in Bissau and Biombo.

The new Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General for Guinea-Bissau, Modibo I. Touré has reaffirmed the UN's availability to continue supporting the country.