SADC – Madagascan Crisis: the option quick inclusive dialogue

The five state chiefs gathered in Johannesburg call all concerned parties ” to commit to a negotiated pacific resolution “. The south-African president Jacob Zuma has confirmed

For the SADC, it is urgent to unblock the situation in the Great Isle after the African Union’s International Contact Group mediation failure. The regional organization calls all sides to resume the dialogue and to put aside violent solutions susceptible” to undermine the on-going efforts to restore constitutional order “.  

Let’s “stick out to the peace process “. This declaration of king Mswati III of Swaziland eclipses, for the time being, the military option that has been evoked these last two weeks. The SADC insists on the dialogue but will adopt different strategies to go faster and especially to come to a conclusion.  

The regional organization” is keen on actively promoting the dialogue” but asks to the Madagascan political actors to quickly express a will in this sense. “The summit expressed its serious concern in the face of the Madagascan political deterioration, characterized mainly by an exacerbated hostility between the different political groups “.  

The SADC remains optimistic while being conscious of the Madagascan parts’ reluctance at the time of the dialogue initiated by the international Contact Group. The SADC has also been very criticized in Madagascar since its condemnation of unconstitutional government change. Its very suspension of the Great Isle removes its legitimacy in the mediation according to the Rajoelina side.  

The SADC preference of a political and pacific solution to the military suggestion from the COMESA and some countries members should loosen the atmosphere. The holding of this extraordinary summit had actually been feeding fear of an intervention of the international Brigade.  

The resolution of this Summit is a half failure for Marc Ravalomanana who wanted an urgent action to keep pressure up on the regime. The legalistic hope lays now in an implementation of the elected president’s return within the” inclusive dialogue” extolled by the SADC.