Africa-Press – Angola. The Angolan ambassador Nazaré José Salvador took over the rotating presidency, for one year, of the Standing Committee of Senior Officials of the Southern African Development Community (SADC), within the framework of the 43rd Summit of Heads of State and of Government of the organization, to be held on the 17th, in Luanda.
Nazaré Salvador, who is also the director of the SADC Committee in Angola, replaced the Democratic Congolese, in coordinating the body, at the opening of the committee meeting, which deals with operational issues and prepares the agenda of the organisation’s Council of Ministers.
According to the spokesperson for the 43rd Summit of Heads of State and Government of SADC, Ambassador Jorge Catarino Cardoso, senior officials kicked off the Summit on 17 August, with the preparation of the agenda for the Council of Ministers, scheduled for the 13th and 14th of this month.
He stated that the document includes questions that will allow assessing the progress achieved since the last Summit in Kinshasa, held last year.
He pointed out, among the issues under debate, budgetary issues, including funding for various integration projects and the report of the SADC executive secretary on the regional development plan, which is based on the foundational pillars of peace, security and governance.
The also director of Africa, Middle East and Regional Affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that an assessment of the degree of implementation of the various infrastructure projects with an impact on regional integration is still planned.
He said that an approach on employment and employability and diseases and communicable diseases, above all, HIV/AIDS, was also on the agenda.
He recalled that industrialization will be Angola’s motto over the next 12 months, with the motto “human and financial capital: the main factors for sustainable industrialization in the SADC region”.
The regional organization comprises Angola, Botswana, Comoros, Democratic Republic of Congo, Eswatini, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Seychelles, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
Angola assumes the rotating presidency of SADC this month, for a period of one year, after having already done so in 2012.
SADC is an inter-governmental organization created in 1992 and dedicated to socio-economic cooperation and integration, as well as cooperation in matters of politics and security.
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