Africa-Press – Angola. Angola’s ambassador to South Africa, Rui Orlando Xavier, said this Thursday that Peace should be the key word in the lives of Angolans, judging by the benefits achieved over the last 22 years.
Speaking exclusively,on the occasion of the 4th of April, Day of Peace and National Reconciliation, the diplomat made a point of highlighting that “there is nothing better than Peace. This simple three-letter word has enormous meaning for us”.
With Peace, he continued, people move throughout the national territory and more frequently by land, a fact that was impossible during the years of conflict, when air means were the only option and clearly did not reach the majority of citizens.
After long years of war, it is a common voice among Angolans to say “no more armed conflict, because it has caused thousands of human losses, destroyed our country, slowed down development and worse than that, it has deeply affected all of our people”.
The head of the Angolan Diplomatic Mission in South Africa also said that we see the economy growing, although we face many other challenges, but still, we can say that we are on the right path.
“To do this, we have to show some patience, while we all work on rebuilding the country”, he concluded.
April 4th has been celebrated since 2002, after the signing of the Luena (Moxico) Memorandum of Understanding, between the highest levels of the Angolan Armed Forces (FAA) and the Former Military Forces of UNITA (FALA).
This act would put an end to the 27 years of internal conflict, following the signing of the Lusaka Peace Accords (Zambia) of November 20, 1994.
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