Africa-Press – Angola. The parliamentary group of UNITA, the largest opposition party, submitted a Draft Resolution to parliament for the Angolan President to promote “serious and comprehensive dialogue” for peace in Cabinda, “through peaceful and negotiated means”.
According to the first vice-president of the parliamentary group of the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA), Navita Ngolo, the first step must be taken to extend peace “to every corner of the lands of Cabinda”.
“Everyone wants peace in Cabinda. Governors and governed, civilians and military, teachers and students, traditional authorities, everyone, absolutely everyone, wants negotiated peace to come to Cabinda through dialogue,” said Navita Ngolo, when presenting the quarterly political declaration.
The first vice-president of the UNITA parliamentary group highlighted that the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA), the ruling party, also expressed on the occasion of the Day of Peace and National Reconciliation its “unconditional political will to broaden the basis of permanent and inclusive dialogue on all social, political and economic issues and phenomena”.
The deputy highlighted that, on the 22nd of this month, UNITA submitted a draft resolution to the National Assembly recommending to the President of the Republic, João Lourenço, that he promote “serious and comprehensive dialogue to extend peace to Cabinda through peaceful and negotiated means, and declare the unconditional and immediate cessation of military hostilities in Cabinda”.
“We believe that we are all in agreement. As President João Lourenço stated, conflicts must be resolved peacefully and through negotiation, through dialogue with everyone, ‘whatever their origin’. We have no doubt that these words from the President of the Republic reflect the sublime and sovereign will of the Angolan people, from Cabinda to Cunene, and from Lobito to Luau”, he said.
The Cabinda State Liberation Front – Cabindese Armed Forces (FLEC-FAC), an independence movement in that province in the north of Angola, geographically separated from the country, has been demanding independence for several years for that territory, from where a large part of Angolan oil comes, claiming that the enclave was a Portuguese protectorate, as established by the Treaty of Simulambuco, of 1885, and not an integral part of Angola.
Last week, the Angolan government considered the situation in Cabinda to be stable and denied the existence of any armed conflict in the territory, in reaction to the announcement of a supposed ceasefire by the FLEC-FAC independence movement.
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