The 21-member Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) on Monday began a three-day meeting in the Zambian capital, Lusaka to draw up a regional protocol on peace and security to deal with armed conflicts which have ravaged more than half of the economic grouping’s members, PANA reported on Tuesday.
The proposal for a legal framework on peace and security arose from a growing concern over the widespread and persistent armed conflicts among its member states. The meeting is expected to identify and analyse the causes of conflicts, wars and political instabilities within and among member states.
The gathering will try to devise a programme on how the body can play a role in conflict prevention, management and resolution, including post-conflict reconstruction.
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