Land invasions: ministry creates negotiating table between company and MST

The Ministry of Agrarian Improvement and Household Agriculture (MDA) created a negotiating desk between the corporate Suzano Papel e Celulose and the Motion of Landless Rural Employees (MST). The measure was adopted after the MST invaded three of the corporate’s productive areas within the excessive south of Bahia. The motion alleges that Suzano didn’t adjust to an settlement signed in 2011 and that the corporate’s areas are used for eucalyptus monoculture.

In response to the MDA minister, Paulo Teixeira, after a gathering with Suzano and representatives of the MST, it was determined that each events will resume this dialogue that was interrupted. “The dialogue was resumed. There was a negotiation in 2011 between the events, which have been three corporations that have been included by Suzano, and this dialogue was interrupted in 2016. We created a negotiating desk that may maintain its first assembly on March 16”.

Paulo Teixeira, says that till then, the events will assessment the phrases of the settlement that was signed to replace it. “We need to reaffirm the settlement made in 2011 as a result of the events need to persist with it.” Teixeira didn’t element the explanations for breaking the settlement between the corporate and the MST in 2016.

What does Suzano say?

Suzano says, in a word, that it fulfilled its a part of the settlement, allocating 12 rural properties appropriate for acquisition by Incra and settlement of households. The corporate claims that Incra accomplished the acquisition of solely 2 of the agricultural properties. “We is not going to settle for disrespect for the Structure, personal property and the rule of legislation. The dialogue of such subjects throughout a gathering with the MDA and MST, after the illegally invaded areas have been vacated, demonstrates the corporate’s willingness to maneuver ahead within the joint building of an answer to the theme”, he highlighted in a word.

Minister Paulo Teixeira says that Suzano acknowledges the obligations assumed within the 2011 settlement and that it’ll focus on the mode of motion and execution with the federal authorities. “We imagine that there was progress and that it serves for instance that each one varieties of conflicts may be resolved on this manner. We inaugurated a brand new technique of battle decision with the target of helping households that have to be settled by the agrarian reform applications”.

The minister additionally added that everybody seeks peace within the countryside. “All of us need peace within the countryside. All of us need a resolution with dialogue to resolve any conflicts. Respect for property rights shall be a keynote of those actors right here”.