Africa-Press – Angola. The spokesperson for the 43rd Summit of Heads of State and Government of SADC, Jorge Cardoso, assured (Monday) in Luanda, Angola’s readiness for the successful holding of the event, whose work will start this Tuesday Thursday, with the session of the Standing Committee of Senior Officials of that regional organization.
Ambassador Jorge Cardoso, also director of the Africa, Middle East and Regional Affairs Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, spoke during a “breefing” with the press, aimed at launching the main activities planned for the Summit, which culminates on the 17th with the election of Angola to the rotating presidency of SADC for the period 2023/2024.
Taking place under the motto “Human and Financial Capital: The main factors for the sustainable industrialization of SADC”, the meeting reserves for the 8th and 9th the preparation of documentation inherent to the work of the Council of Ministers, to take place on Sunday and Monday. next fair, for later appreciation on the 17th of the current month.
According to the spokesperson, who underlined the importance of the theme of the event, during the presidency the country should seek to boost the regional integration of SADC with the substratum of industrialization as a “backdrop”, making use of human capital, as well as financing source.
He considered it essential that with skilled and qualified people it was possible to reach higher levels of industrialization, but he said it was not possible without flexible and sustainable sources of financing.
As for the challenge of Angola assuming the presidency at a time when some countries in the region are facing internal conflicts, namely Mozambique and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), ambassador Jorge Cardoso guaranteed that the situation is being duly monitored by SADC structures.
He referred that, two years ago, a SADC force was deployed in the Mozambican region of Cabo Delgado to fight the prevailing insurgency there, while in the DRC the SADC intervention forces are integrated in the UN mission and, together with the government and the local armed forces have sought to guarantee security in that country, especially in the eastern region.
The Summit programme, most of whose delegations are already in the country, foresees, among other activities, meetings of the Finance Committee (10th), the Organ Troika (15th), the Council of Ministers Troika (16th), as well as such as holding a public lecture (12), aimed mainly at youth.
Headquartered in Gaborone (Botswana), one of SADC’s major objectives is to make the region industrialized by 2063, as set out in the organization’s Strategy and Roadmap, approved by the Heads of State and Government, in April 2015, for the period 2015-2063.
Created in August 1992, SADC is made up of Angola, South Africa Botswana, Comoros, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Eswatini, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Seychelles, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
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