Africa-Press – Angola. The President of the Republic, João Lourenço, defended this Monday, in the United States of America, the need for a coordinated effort to eliminate conflicts, instability, insecurity and unpredictability that discourage the investment and international partners.
When speaking at the Summit on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), as part of the High-Level Week of the 78th Session of the UN General Assembly, the President said he was aware of the interdependent relationship between peace and development.
According to João Lourenço, who spoke as acting president of SADC, Angola will continue to develop actions with a view to achieving the community’s 2050 vision in the future, which envisages a region with political and social stability, peaceful and developed from an economic point of view, of justice and freedoms.
According to the President, these objectives (Vision 2050), which are specific to this region and shared by international partners, will be achieved with a combined effort between all, but with much fewer constraints and obstacles, if the situation between SADC and the international community develops. without unilateral punitive measures against member states, as in the case of the Republic of Zimbabwe.
Climate change
In another area, the Angolan President said that the Southern African region has been subject to the consequences of climate change, with all the harmful effects that this has on the region’s economies.
He highlighted the need to implement the international climate change agenda and fulfill the promises made by developed countries to make financial resources available, in order to, with some other complementary resources, ensure financing for adaptation until 2025, to achieve the goals objectives of recapitalizing the green climate fund.
He highlighted the importance of global cooperation, solidarity and joint action, to face the multiple and complex challenges that the world currently faces.
“We are facing an occasion in which the assessment we make regarding our performance will allow us to take measures to correct or rectify everything that we believe was not carried out in the most appropriate way”, expressed the Head of State.
He added that the meeting needs to be made “a true turning point, towards a more dynamic, committed and engaged approach, with a view to strengthening political commitment and mobilizing wills capable of helping to advance in areas, the results of which will be reflected positively in improving the general living conditions of our populations”.
Cooperation
Regarding cooperation, João Lourenço highlighted that the SADC region has made notable progress in implementing the regional cooperation and integration priorities, outlined in the organization’s 2050 vision and the indicative strategic plan for regional development 2020 – 2030.
“We must recognize that a set of conditions that derive from the Covid-19 pandemic, climate change and other factors, namely the instability that affected some countries in the region, have had a considerable negative impact on the ability of countries to fulfill, more effectively, the strategic plans that aim to deepen the regional integration of Southern Africa and promote its development, in a perspective that highlights the ambitions for the Africa we want, established in the African Union’s 2063 agenda”, he highlighted.
According to the President, the advances could have been more significant and expressive, “if we had not had to deal with the global crisis and other specific ones in our region that forced us to divert our attention from the central issues of development, in order to face them ”.
He said that the difficulties in accessing financial resources, in comfortable conditions for the economies of this region, represent another side of the problem for carrying out essential projects in crucial areas, to boost development, on which the creation of conditions that favor the necessary and urgent change to the poverty framework and indicators.
The event is one of eight initiatives taking place in parallel with the UN General Debate, from the 19th to the 26th of this month.
The opening session of the event, lasting two days, also included interventions by the President of the General Assembly, the Secretary-General of the United Nations and the President of the Economic and Social Council, as well as some heads of State and Government .
During the Summit, the heads of State and Government are addressing the midpoint of the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and creating a decisive opportunity to accelerate efforts in this direction.
The event represents a central United Nations platform to push Member States to assume renewed political leadership in implementing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
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