Africa-Press – Angola. The Angolan Head of State, João Lourenço, defended Saturday, in Luanda, the urgency of greater coordination between all the actors in the peace process in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), with a view to the defined peace objectives.
In this context, João Lourenço, who was speaking at the Extraordinary Summit of the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (CIRGL) on peace and security in the East of the DRC and in the Republic of Sudan, also defended the need to hold a Quadripartite Summit in Luanda .
According to the Angolan statesman, representatives of the Southern African Development Conference (SADC), East African Community of States (CAO), International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (CIRGL) and Economic Community of African States should attend this Quadripartite Summit. (ECCAS), under the coordination of the African Union (AU).
“I would like to be able to count on your support for the materialization of this intention”, he underlined.
Regarding the situation of the armed conflict on the ground in the East of the DRC, President João Lourenço acknowledged that, in general, the ceasefire has been complied with, with the exception of small incidents normal in processes like this one.
In this wake, the Angolan statesman highlighted the need to imprint greater speed in the process of creating conditions for the cantonment of Congolese citizens who are members of the armed movement “M23”.
João Lourenço, current President of the CIRGL, welcomed the decision that approved the deployment of a regional force within the framework of the SADC State of Alert Force, as a regional response to efforts to restore peace and security in the territory of the DRC.
situation in Sudan
With regard to the outbreak of the conflict in Sudan, since April 15 of the current year, the Angolan President referred to it as being an intricate conflict with dramatic consequences on the humanitarian, economic and regional security levels.
He noted that in his capacity as Acting President of the CIRGL and Champion of the African Union for Peace and Security in Africa, he has sought to monitor the situation very closely.
In this regard, he informed that he held a conversation with Adbel Fattah Al-Burhan, President of the Transitional Sovereign Council of Sudan, with whom he analyzed the current situation in that country, having appealed, at the time, for the belligerent parties to try to find, through the dialogue, a solution to the problem.
He recognized that the situation remains tense, but argued that the fact that a ceasefire is in operation, whose validity should be encouraged, gives some hope that it will be possible to define a negotiating framework that will lead to an effective and lasting peace, -chamber for the transition of power to a civil government that emanates from the will of the people at the ballot box.
At the end of his speech, the Angolan Head of State expressed the expectation that the conclusions of the summit, which ends this Saturday (3) will be productive and likely to help revitalize the peace processes in the DRC and Sudan.
The event, which includes the participation of some Heads of State or their representatives from the CIRGL, takes place under the motto “For a stable Great Lakes region, towards sustainable development”.
Created in 1994, after the political and military conflicts that marked the Great Lakes Region in the early 1990s, the CIRGL brings together Angola, Burundi, the Central African and Democratic Republics of Congo, as well as Congo, Kenya, Uganda , Rwanda, Sudan, South Sudan, Tanzania and Zambia.
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