Africa-Press – Angola. Angola joined the Member States who voted, this Wednesday, 12, in favor of resolution A/ES-11/L.5, “Ukraine’s territorial integrity: defending the principles of the United Nations Charter”.
According to a press release, the document that was voted during the eleventh Special Emergency session of the General Assembly obtained 143 votes in favour, 5 against and 35 abstentions.
“Our position is also in line with the provisions of the United Nations Charter and the Constitutive Act of the African Union (AU). Indeed, the predecessor organization of the African Union, the Organization of African Unity (OAU), dictated the fundamental bases of it. principle when the founding fathers wisely decided, in 1964, to maintain the principle of the intangibility of the borders inherited from colonialism”, underlined the Permanent Representative of Angola to the United Nations, Maria Ferreira”
The diplomat stated that Angola voted in favor of this resolution, in accordance with the well-founded principle of the sacrosanct territorial integrity enshrined in its own Constitution, which defines Angola as a unitary and indivisible State, whose territory is inviolable and inalienable .
Emphasizing that since the 1960s, the Russian people have always shown their friendship and solidarity with the Angolan people, having played a decisive role in our struggle for liberation against colonialism and against the invasion of Angolan territory by the army of the Apartheid regime of South Africa.
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