THE RESUMPTION OF NEGOTIATIONS

The formal negotiating process was resumed in March, 1993, following extensive consultations with all the parties involved.

On 5 – 6 March a planning committee was convened that included representatives from 26 parties with significant support – including some that had not participated in CODESA 1 and 2.  an additional 11 organisations were given observer status.

The participants agreed to  

• recommence formal negotiations no later than 5 April 1993; 
• continue to take all future decisions on the basis of ‘sufficient consensus’(i.e. sufficient agreement to ensure the continuation of the process; 
• investigate ways of using agreements already reached at Codesa 2 as the basis for further negoatiations; 
• establish a 26-member Facilitating Committee and a 10-member sub-committee to take the process further and to propose a framework for renewed negotiations.