Africa-Press – Angola. The National Assembly (AN) approved this Wednesday, unanimously, the ratification of the Amendments to the Protocol Relating to the Statute of the African Court of Justice and Human Rights.
The Draft Resolution was approved with 148 votes in favour, no votes against and no abstentions, during the 8th Extraordinary Plenary Meeting of the 1st Legislative Session of the V Legislature.
With the validation of this mechanism, the Republic of Angola is among the first member states of the African Union (AU) to ratify this international legal instrument.
Angola thus announces its participation in the bodies of the African Union and in particular in the process of establishing this Court.
In addition to Angola, Burkina Faso, Mali, Senegal and Tanzania also ratified the Protocol.
The Protocol on Amendments to the Protocol on the Statute of the African Court of Justice and Human Rights was adopted by the 20th Session of the AU Assembly held on 27th June 2014 in the city of Malabo (Equatorial Guinea).
It is part of the objectives and principles set out in the Constitutive Act of the African Union, adopted in the city of Lomé, Togo, on July 11, 2000, among which the commitment to conflict resolution through peaceful means.
The grounding report maintains that Angola, by approving and ratifying this legal instrument “will have the advantages of a better organization of the Court for the promotion of peace, good governance, respect for human rights and democratic principles”.
The Protocol aims to adopt a better organization of the Court, with an adequate jurisdiction, to broadly define the International Criminal Law Section of the Court, including its international criminal jurisdiction in the crimes of genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, anti-constitutional change of Government, piracy, terrorism, corruption, money laundering, human trafficking, among others.
It is structured in a preambular part and a dispositive part containing 3 (three) Chapters and 12 (twelve) articles and an annex related to the Statute of the African Court of Justice and Human and Peoples’ Rights.
The Secretary of State for Administration, Finance and Heritage of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Maria Auxiliadora Ramiro, said, before the Plenary, that the ratification of the Protocol is beneficial for meeting the objectives assumed by the country at the international level, related to national reconciliation, restoring peace, security and rebuilding cohesion in Africa.
He indicated that, in the context of conflict mediation, the Protocol contributes to the solidification of the culture of peace in Africa.
On the other hand, deputy Nvunda Salucombo, from the MPLA, said that, with the accession to the Protocol, Angola has an opportunity to insert its senior and intermediate staff in the African Court of Human Rights.
UNITA, in the voice of deputy Nuno Álvaro Dala, said it had voted in favor of the draft Resolution because Angola’s accession to this legal instrument “constitutes, without a shadow of a doubt, the material affirmation as a State committed to security, peace, constitutional stability, justice and human rights”.
He noted that by joining the African Court of Justice and Human Rights, Angola is segmenting its commitment so that, at an internal level, its institutions of justice (courts) and of aid to the realization of justice (PGR and National Police) act with the paradigm of dignity of human person.
Deputy Bela Malaquias, from the PHA, stressed that Angola’s adherence to this Protocol should constitute a commitment to the promotion of human rights in Africa and the fight against crimes of corruption, money laundering, human trafficking, among others. adoption of minors
The Plenary of the Assembly also discussed and voted on 2 (two) requests for authorization for the double international adoption of minors Eduardo Miguel “Messias” and Guilherme Kiluanje.
The petizes’ draft resolutions were unanimously approved by Angolan deputies.
The purpose of adoption is the social, moral and effective protection of minors, thus constituting, between the adopter and the adopted, a bond of patent analogous to that which links children to their parents, as established in article 197 of the Family Code.
The Deputies proceeded, in this Plenary meeting, to vote, unanimously, on the Draft Resolution, which approves, for the Adhesion of the Republic of Angola, the Solemn Declaration to the Single Market of Air Transport in Africa.
The debate in the hemicycle was marked by moments of some tension between MPLA and UNITA deputies, motivating several points of order, which led the president of the hemicycle, Carolina Cerqueira, to appeal for calm and serenity for the continuation of the session.
The next Plenary meeting is scheduled for Thursday (27), with the assessment and vote on the General State Account for the 2021 financial year.
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