Africa-Press – Angola. The Angolan presidency of the Parliamentary Forum of the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (PF-ICGLR), under the leadership of the president of the National Assembly, Carolina Cerqueira, has the unconditional support of the 12 member states of the organization. The guarantee was given on Friday, in Luanda, by the outgoing president of the Forum, Nelly Mutti, during the ceremony to hand over to Angola the instruments of power of the organization, namely the wooden gavel and the flag.
Nelly Mutti, also president of the Zambian Parliament, stated that the new leadership, assumed yesterday by the Republic of Angola, will have all the necessary support to continue the strategies already outlined, as well as to promote new initiatives.
“We call on all member states to support the new leadership and we hope to continue with the same spirit of pan-African cooperation, to elevate our great region to a higher continental level”, stressed the leader of the Zambian Parliament.
According to the outgoing president, Carolina Cerqueira’s mission will be to establish a regional mechanism that aims to strengthen the Democratic and Legal State, and to promote peace, stability, good governance and Human Rights.
In addition, she added, it will be important to promote efforts so that the Forum can collaborate with other regional and international bodies, such as the IPO, the Southern African Development Community (SADC), the Community of Portuguese Language Countries (CPLP) and the United Nations system, in order to contribute to the training of parliamentarians.
Regarding the armed conflict in the East of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Nelly Mutti stressed the need for leaders to opt for dialogue as the path to resolving hostilities, highlighting that the process requires joint and assertive action.
“It is essential that parliaments, at national and regional level, create mechanisms to support dialogue to resolve conflicts in the DRC and in other African countries that still face these challenges”, said the outgoing president of the FP-ICGLR, stressing that it is necessary to dialogue not only with allies, but also with enemies, as exemplified by the Government of Congo when it dialogued with the rebels.
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