Africa-Press – Angola. Angolan Foreign Minister Teto António on Thursday stressed the position of defending the adoption of measures to resolve the Libyan conflict by peaceful way, condemning all attempts to interference, contrary to the interests of this people and the African continent.
The Minister Tette António made this statement at the 1291st Meeting of the African Union’s Peace and Security Council, representing President João Lourenço, leader of the continental organization.
The event devoted itself to the analysis of the political and security situation in the state of Libya, a recurring theme on the African Union agenda due to prolonged instability in the country since the fall of President Muammar Kadhafi in 2011.
According to Minister Tete António, since the fall of the Mouammar Kadhafi regime, Libya has been profoundly fragmented among the national union governments (GNU), based in Tripoli, and National Stability (GNS), based on Benghazi, an internal division by power and divergent external interests.
For this fact, he reiterated Angola’s appeal for a collective and coordinated international action to support this country and congratulated the important work done by the United Nations support mission in Libya, UNSMIL, under the leadership of diplomat Hanna Tetteh.
He invited the diplomat to continue his efforts to increasingly consolidate his collaboration with the African Union’s Bureau for this area.
Likewise, he appealed ‘to all the UA member states to reinforce faith and commitment to the continental mechanisms that are disposed of, in order to contribute very actively to the resolution of the crisis situation in this brother country.’
In his speech, Tete António Minister congratulated the president of Uganda, Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, for the rise of this country to the presidency of the African Union’s Peace and Security Council for July.
He also thanked Libya’s President of the Presidential Council of the State, Mohammed Younis Bashir Al Mnefi, and the Chief of Staff of the African Union’s High-Bene Committee on Libya, Denis Sassou in his interventions, who once again come to the complexity of the existing instability in this country, which lasts for too long.
The occasion also served the holder of the Angolan diplomacy portfolio to congratulate the relevant information presented by the president of the African Union Commission, Mohmoud Ali Youssouf, and the special representative of the UN Secretary-General and head of the United Nations Support Mission to Libya (UNSMIL), Hanna Tetteh.
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