Renamo is contesting a meeting between the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, Verónica Macamo, and diplomats accredited in Mozambique, where information is to be given about the local elections on October 11.

"It is the Renamo Party's understanding that this is not opportune, pertinent or ethical and could represent a real conflict of interest given that the Minister of Foreign Affairs is a member of the Party's Political Commission and National Mandate," said Manuel Massungue, Head of the National Department of Foreign Affairs.

Renamo believes that because it holds the portfolio of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, and is also a trustee and member of the Frelimo party, it may not be able to give a real diagnosis of the October 11 local elections, the results of which are being contested by the opposition.

"It is our expectation and that of Mozambicans to hear from the minister the real diagnosis of the political climate in the country after the mega-fraud carried out by her party and the solutions to re-establish peace and national harmony," she said today during a press conference in Maputo.

Manuel Massungue called on the diplomatic corps and representatives of international organizations "not to join in any attempt to distort the electoral truth expressed by the Mozambican people at the ballot box, because, as the late president Afonso Dhlakama said, there cannot be one European democracy and another African one".