Africa-Press – Angola. The current situation of “insecurity in the Gulf of Guinea”, mainly maritime, led, Monday (21), the Minister of Foreign Affairs to the premises of the Executive Secretariat of the Gulf of Guinea Commission, based in Angola, on a courtesy visit which also served to address the Abuja Summit, scheduled for April.
According to the executive secretary of the Gulf of Guinea Commission in Luanda, Florentina Adenike Ukonga, cited by a press release from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to which Jornal de Angola had access, the visit of Téte António “represents a milestone important and encourages the activities of that institution.” The opportunity was taken by Florentina Adenike Ukonga to exchange impressions about the forthcoming Summit of Heads of State and Government of the Gulf of Guinea Commission, to be held probably in April, in Abuja ( Nigeria).
The Gulf of Guinea Commission was born from the treaty signed in Libreville, Republic of Gabon, on 3 July 2001, by Angola, Congo, Gabon, Nigeria and São Tomé and Príncipe, constituting a permanent institutional tool for cooperation between these riparian states. of the Gulf of Guinea with a view to defending their common interests and promoting peace and socio-economic development based on dialogue and consultation, based on the bonds of friendship, solidarity and fraternity that unite them.
The Gulf of Guinea Commission, to which Cameroon and the Democratic Republic of Congo joined in 2008, remains open to the accession of other states along its coast, with the aim of transforming the sub-region into an area of peace and security.
Angola assumes the Deputy Executive Secretariat of the Gulf of Guinea Commission. Angolan Ambassador Afonso Evaristo Eduardo “Inguila” is the new Deputy Executive Secretary for Political Affairs of the Gulf of Guinea Commission (CGG), after being recently appointed to the post by the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and President in Exercise of the sub-regional organization, Muhammadu Buhari.
Angola is a founding member of the Gulf of Guinea Commission (CGG), created in 1999 and comprising Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Congo, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea, Nigeria and São Tomé and Príncipe.
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