Sunday 2 September 2012

RE: [wanabidii] Malawi, Tanzania fail to agree on Lake Malawi border dispute

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From: Felix Mwakyembe
Sent: 27/08/2012 20:23:44
Subject: Re: [wanabidii] Malawi, Tanzania fail to agree on Lake Malawi border dispute

yote hiyo ni shauri ya 2014 na 2015!!!!!!

Felix

On 27 August 2012 15:51, ELISA MUHINGO <elisamuhingo@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Good step. Tough road ahead.
>
> --- On *Sun, 8/26/12, Charles Banda <chasbanda@gmail.com>* wrote:
>
>
> From: Charles Banda <chasbanda@gmail.com>
> Subject: [wanabidii] Malawi, Tanzania fail to agree on Lake Malawi border
> dispute
> To: wanabidii@googlegroups.com
> Date: Sunday, August 26, 2012, 11:48 PM
>
>
> MZUZU--Malawi and Tanzania on Saturday announced that they had failed to
> resolve their dispute on the border of Lake Malawi and agreed to continue
> to push for a diplomatic and negotiated solution.
>
> "After frank and spirited discussions between the two countries, we have
> concluded that our differences still remain," Tanzanian Foreign
> Affairs Minister Bernard Membe said at the end of a ministerial meeting.
>
> Membe said the meeting agreed to take the diplomatic path with fresh
> meetings in Tanzania from September 10-14, saying "we have agreed that the
> answer to this dispute is a negotiated settlement.
>
> "Only negotiations and diplomacy will solve this problem," he added,
> saying that a joint technical committee of the two countries will thrash
> out the matter.
>
> The minister said the two countries also agreed to "restrain themselves
> from making explosive and provocative statements and leave the issue to
> diplomacy. It's about life, peace and security."
>
> Membe also said they had agreed oil exploration in the lake, particularly
> in the disputed areas, should "cease to allow space for negotiations to
> take place."
>
> He said the meeting also agreed to allow attorney generals of the two
> countries to evaluate the 1890 treaty which determined the border of the
> lake.
>
> He said that determination will be made before the Tanzania meeting next
> month.
>
> His counterpart Ephraim Mganda Chiume said Malawi had been negotiating in
> "good faith" and wants to "exhaus
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