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Disarmament: General Peace Agreement for Mozambique

Implementations

Disarmament – 1992

Weapons collection and destruction was one of the mandates of the United Nations Operation in Mozambique (UNOMOZ), which was established in October 1992. Because the demobilization process had not yet begun in 1992, weapons were not collected and destroyed.

Disarmament – 1993

Because demobilization process had not yet begun in 1993, weapons were not collected and destroyed.

Disarmament – 1994

“UNOMOZ collected a total of 189,827 weapons, 43,491 of which belonged to paramilitary forces (out of a projected total of 49,806). This was significantly less than the amount of weapons that were known to be in Mozambique. Because of delays in the demobilization process, UNOMOZ was unable to complete the verification of weapons before the expiration of its mandate. Many of the weapons which were collected at the assembly areas were of poor quality, thus suggesting that the better quality weapons remained outside the disarmament process.”¹

“Practitioners’ Questionnaire on Weapons Control, Disarmament, and Demobilization During Peacekeeping Operations,” United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR), 1995, vii-viii, in Peter Batchelor, Disarmament, Small Arms, and Intra-State Conflict: The Case of Southern Africa (Disarmament and Conflict Resolution Project—Small Arms Management and Peacekeeping in Southern Africa, 1996).