Treaty of Lusaka
The Treaty of Lusaka, also known as the Lusaka Agreement , in Portuguese Acordo de Lusaka , was an agreement between the second provisional government of Portugal under Vasco Gonçalves and the Mozambican independence movement FRELIMO . The treaty passed on September 7, 1974 in Lusaka ( Zambia ) sealed the independence of the Portuguese colony of Mozambique .
In the treaty, the Portuguese state recognized the right to self-determination of the Mozambican people. As a consequence, both sides agreed to transfer power to the FRELIMO independence movement. Furthermore, it was agreed to proclaim independence on June 25, 1975. Further contractual clauses concerned the jurisprudence between the adoption of the treaty and the proclamation of independence, which resulted in a division of power. While Portugal provided a High Commissioner, FRELIMO already took over the majority of the cabinet of the transitional government .
The contract negotiations ran from September 5th to 7th. For the Portuguese side, Ernesto Melo Antunes (Minister without Portfolio), Mário Soares (Foreign Minister), António de Almeida Santos (Minister for Inter-Territorial Coordination), Victor Manuel Trigueiros Crespo (Council of State), Antero Sobral (State Secretary for Labor and Social Security in the Provisional Government of Mozambique), Nuno Alexandre Lousada (Lieutenant General of the Infantry), Vasco Fernando Leote de Almeida e Costa (First Lieutenant of the Fleet) and Luís António de Moura Casanova Ferreira (Major of the Infantry). Samora Machel signed the agreement on the Mozambican side .
With the signature of the Portuguese President António de Spínola and the publication of the contract in the Law Gazette Diário do Governo (series I, number 210) on September 9, 1975, this came into force.
