“On the side of local observers we are going to be having members of civil society organizations and on foreign observers we will be having representatives from foreign embassies accredited to Zimbabwe,” said Mangwana.
He said Copac was yet to agree on the number of observers that will be in attendance at the constitutional conference.
He said: ”We are waiting to see the response and then decide on the cut-off figure but we are not expecting more than 50 observers.”
His counterpart, Douglas Mwonzora also confirmed the invitation of local and foreign observers although he would not divulge the limit placed on the number of people set to attend.
He expressed concern that some civil society organizations had not yet presented their names for accreditation.
“We have been communicating with the civil society organizations about the programme but unfortunately some of them are yet to present their names for accreditation;” said Mangwana.
However, on Monday, Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition spokesperson, Thabani Nyoni told The Zimbabwean that the COPAC co-chairpersons were delaying furnishing them with details of the programme for the Second All Stakeholders Conference.
“Right now, we are fighting over how we have been invited. We have made submissions over these concerns but up to now we haven’t got a response. We have been preoccupied with challenging the co-chairpersons to give us a programme of the event,” said Nyoni.
Mangwana disclosed to The Zimbabwean that the first day of the constitutional conference would be marked by the arrival of delegates while the second day will see the official opening by principals in the coalition government after which delegates would go for the plenary where the draft constitution and national statistical report would be tabled.
“After that we will go into breakaway groups to discuss various chapters of the draft constitution and report to the plenary the following day and we will close at around lunchtime;” said Mangwana.
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