Africa-Press – Angola. The Head of State, João Lourenço, also Acting President of the Southern African Development Community (SADC), was one of the speakers at the inauguration ceremony of the President of the Comoros Islands, Azali Assoumani.
His Excellency Azali Assoumani, President of the Union of Comoros;
Excellencies Heads of State and Government;
Excellencies Representatives of Heads of State and Government;
Distinguished Guests;
Ladies, Gentlemen,
It is a great honor for me to be in Moroni, capital of the Comoros, to participate in the investiture ceremony of Your Excellency as President of the Republic of the Comoros, to which you were reappointed in elections held on the 14th of January of this year.
I am firmly convinced that your re-election is the recognition of the people of the Comoros for Your Excellency’s committed action in the effort to transform the country towards economic development, social progress and prosperity for all.
We know that you will once again face highly complex tasks to put your country on the path to development, but we believe that Your Excellency, with your dynamism and devotion to the noblest causes of the people of Comoros, will know how to overcome the obstacles and barriers that will emerge.
Excellencies, Ladies, Gentlemen
This important ceremony is also an opportune moment to highlight the role that Your Excellency played as President-in-Office of the African Union in the year 2023, in addressing the major issues of our continent with realism and pragmatism necessary to resolve the main problems facing Africa.
This is a legacy that makes us proud and that will serve as a guide to define strategies that allow us to accelerate the processes of promoting dialogue aimed at putting an end to conflicts on our continent and, thus, opening the way to economic and social development. of our countries.
Excellencies Ladies and Gentlemen
In this ceremony we are faced with a demonstration that the only sustainable and legitimate way to gain power in Africa is through free, fair and transparent elections, which give the people the opportunity to celebrate the festival of democracy with all of its recognized virtues, as leaders emerging from elections can count on a broad and consistent popular base that allows them to govern legitimately in a climate of greater serenity and stability.
Our SADC region continues to be a good example in terms of regularly holding free and transparent elections, the results of which do not, as a rule, generate violent protests that endanger the maintenance of order and stability in countries or the foundations of the Democratic State and the Rule of Law.
This year, we await the holding of general elections in Namibia, Botswana, Mozambique and South Africa, where we hope, once again, that the results will be respected by all competing parties.
Ladies and Gentlemen
We remain concerned about the situation of instability and war still in force in some of the SADC member states, namely in Mozambique and the Democratic Republic of Congo, for whom we reiterate our continued support and solidarity.
We are also concerned about the armed conflict in Sudan, which has caused an increasing number of human victims and great destruction of the country’s important economic infrastructures, as well as a high number of internally displaced people and refugees, destabilizing the neighboring countries that see each other with difficulties in responding to the humanitarian emergency created.
We understand that international humanitarian agencies prioritize assistance to other ongoing conflicts, namely in Palestine, to primarily address the situation of serious humanitarian catastrophe in which the civilian populations of the Gaza Strip find themselves, but the Sudanese people deserve equal attention and the war of Sudan cannot be a forgotten war and simply ignored by the international community.
I would like to conclude by wishing the President every success in carrying out his duties as President of the Republic of the Union of Comoros.
Thank you for your attention”.
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