25 March 2008
Luanda — The first deputy speaker of the National Assembly (Parliament), João Lourenço Tuesday here stressed the importance of joining efforts for the development of local administration in the country.
According to João Lourenço, who was speaking at the opening session of the Parliamentary Workshop on Local Administration under the decree nº2/07, of January 03, national and foreign experts are also attending the gathering with the same objective.
Still according to the Parliament official, the meeting will also enable participants to discuss about the importance of the Angolan parliament in managing local interests, as well as the need of associating State decision-making organs with the population.
He added that experiences on the issue shall be discussed, both in the framework of financial decentralisation and of the development of the municipality, as of the relation between chieftains and official authority of the State in modern times.
João Lourenço said that as a result of this, the workshop aims at contributing for the relation and understanding of mechanism to be considered in the socio-economic development of Angola, avoiding at all costs the increase of regional unevenness and promote interior development through knowledge.
Due to this, he defended that the guarantee of the fundamental rights of citizens is one of the key pillars in which the democracy of any pluralist society lies.
He referred that this aspects involves their direct participation in seeking and in making important decisions not only relating to them, but mainly with the development of regions and localities of their areas of jurisdiction, thereby improving the living conditions.
Happening at the Palace of Congresses, the workshop is organised by the fourth commission of the National Assembly, which is responsible for the Administration of the State and of the Local Power of the Parliament.
At the meeting, the MPs will analyse, among other issues, the "Public/private partnership, as a means of promoting municipal development".
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