Africa-Press – Angola. The President of the National Assembly, Carolina Cerqueira, this Friday asked the staff of the Angolan Armed Forces (FAA) for discipline and a high sense of mission, guided by the defense of fundamental rights and the safety of civilian populations.
In a message on the occasion of the approval of the request of the President of the Republic to send a military component of peace operations in the eastern region of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Carolina Cerqueira asked for the protection and preservation of the rights of children, girls and women victims of the conflict, who are the target of inhuman abuse and heinous sexual crimes on a daily basis.
“We praise the readiness of the FAA contingent, of which 25% are women, which strongly demonstrates the involvement of Angolan women in the peacekeeping process and defense of fundamental rights, as recommended by the United Nations”, he asserted.
For Carolina Cerqueira, the current situation of the conflict and the continued crimes against defenseless civilian populations, which already cause more than 10 million victims, according to a report recently presented at the 146th Assembly of the Inter-parliamentary Union held in the Kingdom of Bahrain, obliges to a solidarity reaction from neighboring states.
“Angola could not seem indifferent to the urgent need for the demilitarization of the M23 forces for the re-establishment of effective peace and security in the east of the DRC, in Central Africa and in the African continent in general”, he reinforced.
This intervention, according to the official, represents, more than ever, a necessary path for the preservation of peace and stability of the peoples of the region, with a view to not postponing the purposes of a better future for the African continent.
The request for authorization from the President of the Republic, as Commander-in-Chief of the Angolan Armed Forces (FAA), regarding the deployment of a Military Contingent of the Support and Peacekeeping Operations Component in the Eastern Region of the DRC, aims to ensure the process of cantonment of the M23 military forces in eastern DRC.
The objective of the Angolan mission will be to adopt the joint general plan for the resolution of the crisis in the East of the DRC, accelerate the effective implementation of the Luanda roadmap, in coordination with the Nairobi process, for the promotion of security in the East region of the DRC and the normalization of political and diplomatic relations with the Republic of Rwanda.
The Angolan contingent, which according to the work commissions should remain in that country for 12 months, will be made up of a battalion of the FAA and respective components, as well as financial means estimated at AOA 11,266 million and 872,000 kwanzas, which will have to be reallocated within the budget of the Defense and Security sector.
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