Patrícia Jerónimo citizenship and demanded renunciation to foreign citizenship on several occasions, it no longer included in the list of grounds for loss the omission of express renunciation to a foreign citizenship acquired by marriage. Instead, Article 24 (e) prescribed that Mozambican citizenship would be lost by those who expressly renounced it; a provision arguably redundant vis-à-vis Article 24 (c). Of the provisions on reacquisition, only Article 25 – on general reacquisition – innovated vis-à-vis the regime set by the 1975 Nationality Act. Besides the residence and integration requirements, applicants now had to renounce any previous citizenship [Article 25 (1) (a)]. The integration requirement was not spelled out in the constitutional provision, which merely referred to ordinary legislation the definition of the requirements and guarantees to be met by the applicants. As the law stood at the time, Article 16 of the Nationality Act applied, which meant that applicants had to offer political and moral guarantees of reintegration into Mozambican society. Regarding the effects of reacquisition, Article 25 (2) of the Constitution also departed from the regime set by the Nationality Act. Instead of limiting citizens with reacquired citizenship to the status of citizens by acquisition, Article 25 (2) now prescribed that reacquisition would return former citizens to the citizenship status that they held before the loss. In the miscellaneous section, Article 27 prescribed that a foreign citizenship held by individuals who, under Mozambican law, were Mozambicans would have no legal effects in Mozambique.50 Article 28 referred to ordinary legislation the regulation of the registration and proof of citizenship acquisition, loss and reacquisition. Article 29 excluded citizens with acquired citizenship from access to the diplomatic, military or equivalent careers, and referred to ordinary legislation the conditions for the exercise of public functions or private functions of public interest by Mozambican citizens with acquired citizenship and by foreigners. Outside of the chapter on citizenship, the 1990 Constitution only differentiated between citizens by origin and citizens by acquisition for the purposes of determining eligibility for the office of President of the Republic. Under Article 118 (3) (a) and (b), only Mozambican citizens by origin whose parents – both the father and the mother (Gouveia 2004: 41) – were themselves Mozambican citizens by origin were entitled to run for the office of President. Meanwhile, peace talks between FRELIMO and RENAMO had started in July 1990 with the mediation of the Italian lay brotherhood of Sant’Egidio (Newitt 2002: 221). A General Peace Agreement for Mozambique was signed in Rome, on 4 October 1992, between Joaquim Chissano, President of the Republic of Mozambique, and Afonso Dhlakama, President of RENAMO, under the chairmanship of the Italian Government and in the presence of representatives of Zimbabwe, Botswana, Kenya, South Africa, Malawi, United States, France, Portugal, United Kingdom, the Organisation of African Union, and the United Nations.51 The General Peace Agreement covered inter alia the criteria and arrangements for the formation and recognition of political parties, including the provision that RENAMO would immediately commence its activities as a political party (Protocol II); the general principles that should guide the drafting of the Electoral Act and the conduct of the electoral process for the legislative and presidential elections (Protocol III); provisions on military questions, including the formation of the Mozambican Defence Force and the withdrawal of foreign troops from Mozambican territory (Protocol IV); guarantees, including the timetable 50 Which replicated the provision in Article 18 of the 1975 Nationality Act, as amended by Law no. 16/87. The text of the Agreement is available at https://peaceaccords.nd.edu/sites/default/files/accords/Mozambique_Peace_Agreement.pdf [23.04.2019]. The Agreement was approved by the Mozambican National Assembly with Law no. 13/92, of 14 October 1992, and entered into force on 15 October 1992, the agreed deadline for the ceasefire. 51 18 RSCAS/GLOBALCIT-CR 2019/6 - © 2019 Author