Africa-Press – Angola. The diplomatic agenda of the President of the Republic, João Lourenço, which included a meeting with the UN undersecretary for Peace Operations, Jean-Pierre Lacroix, and visits to social projects dominated the political news this week.
The efforts of the Angolan Government and the United Nations to promote peace, stability and security in the East of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) were under analysis at the audience granted to Jean-Pierre Lacroix.
The Angolan statesman made contacts for the preparation this Saturday (3rd), in Luanda, of a new extraordinary summit on the Security Situation in the Great Lakes Region, with a focus on the latest developments in Sudan and the DRC.
It was this week that the Angolan Head of State returned from a visit to Italy where he was awarded the Order of Merit of that country and several cooperation agreements were signed, with emphasis on the fields of oil, transport, finance, health and education.
In Luanda, the President of the Republic made contact with the progress of construction work on the Luanda Science and Technology Center (CCL), to be completed in December, and on the future Pedro Maria Tonha “Pedalé” Central Hospital, still with problems to be resolved. .
On his account on the social network Facebook, João Lourenço congratulated the children on the occasion of the World Day of this fringe of society, celebrated on the 1st of June.
In an interview with Jornal Expresso and Agência Lusa, released on Friday, the President of the Republic defended the conclusion and approval of the laws of the municipal process in the National Assembly (AN) so that, later, he can announce a date for the holding of the municipal elections.
In the said interview, the Angolan Head of State denied the allegations about political persecution, within the framework of the ongoing fight against corruption in the country, since September 2017. João Lourenço stated that there are many citizens
in arms with justice, recognizing that, despite the efforts, the problem of corruption will take time to disappear.
“You cannot expect to end corruption in five years, I don’t even know if any country has ended, in the true sense of the word, with corruption”, he said, stressing that the problem “is not that there is corruption, it is that there is impunity”. Also in the last seven days , Angola hosted the Regional Conference
on Combating Corruption, which approved a common roadmap containing several priority commitments for the SADC region.
the mechanisms for the implementation of the United Nations Convention against Corruption at the regional level.
This week, the Vice-President of the Republic, Esperança da Costa traveled to Ankara, Turkey, to represent the Head of State, João Lourenço, in the inauguration of the re-elected President of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who won the second round of the presidential elections .
The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Téte António, evaluated with the special envoy of the Secretary General of the United Nations for the Great Lakes Region, Huang Xia, the political and security situation of the Great Lakes region, with a focus on the conflict in the East of DRC.
He also reviewed the level of bilateral cooperation with the special envoy of the President of the Transitional Sovereign Council of Sudan, Daffa Alla Elhag Ali Osman.
The Head of Angolan diplomacy witnessed, in Abuja (Nigeria), the inauguration of the President of that country, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, who won the February elections.
Last week, the lawyer and university professor Eliseu Sacoji defended in Luena, Moxico, the increase of magistrates in the District Courts to prevent criminal judges from exercising, simultaneously, the function of Guarantee.
Angola this week marked 32 years since the signing of the Bicesse agreements between the Government and UNITA, which boosted the implementation of the multi-party democratic system and laid the foundations for holding the first general elections in the country.
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