28 August 2006
Luanda — Visiting Mali Parliament speaker, Ibrahim Boubakar Keita, Monday in Luanda appealed to the international community to unconditionally support the Angolan reconstruction effort, following decades of a devastating war.
Addressing a special extraordinary session of the National Assembly (Angolan parliament) as part of the agenda of his visit to Angola, Boubakar Keita, urged the international community to channel its assistance to the various programmes of demobilisation and social reintegration of ex-soldiers, under government-designed plans.
He considered such assistance as a duty of solidarity that should never be associated with any conditions.
According to Boubakar Keita, the bulk of the tasks to be carried out and the challenges overwhelm the national capacity and any patriotic and nationalist spirit of the Angolan people.
On the other hand, he welcomed the solidarity of friend countries that extended assistance to the recovery of infrastructures destroyed during the war and relaunch of the national economy.
The Malian parliament speaker who will stay in the country until Saturday, laid a wreath of flowers at the Independence Square, in homage to the first president of Angola, Agostinho Neto, ahead of attending the National Assembly's extraordinary session.
While in Angola, Ibrahim Boubakar Keita is to meet with the leaders of parliamentary groups and hold separate sessions with the ministers of Foreign Affaires, João Bernardo de Miranda, and Planning, Ana Dias Lourenço.
He will on Tuesday meet with the ministers of Territory Administration, Virgílio de Fontes Pereira, and Social Welfare, João Baptista Kussumua, ahead of visits to the Monument to the "4 de Fevereiro" Heroes and to the Kifangondo Historic Site.
Boubakar Keita will travel on Wednesday and Friday to the provinces of Bie and Cabinda, respectively.
On Thursday the visiting parliamentarian will visit the National Electoral Commission (CNE) and meet with the Malian community resident in Angola. A visit to the diamond lapidary plant is included on the agenda.
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