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Angola: Country Willing to Help Find Solutions to Conflicts in Africa
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Angola Press Agency (Luanda)
17 April 2008
Posted to the web 17 April 2008
New York
The Angolan government on Wednesday, in New York, reiterated its commitment to working devotedly and disinterestedly in the African Union (AU)'s Peace and Security Council and in the sub-regional organisations it is part of, to find peaceful solutions to the conflicts that still persist in some countries of the continent.
This stand was expressed by the Foreign Affairs minister, João Bernardo de Miranda, when delivering a speech at the top level meeting between the UN Security Council and the AU Peace and Security Council, which he attended in representation of of President José Eduardo dos Santos.
The Foreign minister defended that for the UN and the AU to respond efficiently to issues relating to the co-operation in the field of preventing, managing and solving conflicts, it is paramount to have a more comprehensive approach to matters of peace and security, without separating them from development concerns, for they are decisive factors to the success of peace-keeping operations.
"This is a lesson we have learnt as we followed-up and observed some processes of conflicts resolution, peace consolidation and economic reconstruction, when we held the chair of the United Nation's Peace Consolidation Commission, in the 2006/2007 period", he explained.
Six years after the end of the decades-long armed conflict that devastated the country, stressed the minister, peace and national reconciliation in Angola are consolidated, as well as democracy, which will be reinforced with the holding of legislative and presidential elections in 2008 and 2009 respectively. The top diplomat explained that in the African context peace consolidation should result from the combination of several factors, such as the conception and application of a coherent national reconciliation policy, as well as the implementation of economic reforms that are bound to offer ample spaces for free initiative of national and foreign citizens.
He also pointed out the need for constant strengthening of state authority as an imperative to consolidate the democratic institutions and the respect and protection of human rights for the materialisation of the mentioned goal.
"Africa is aware that the main causes of the conflicts in the continent have direct relation with the cleavages that come from the complex ethnic and linguistic phenomena, but, they are fundamentally very much connected with the underdevelopment that results from the undeniable legacy of a long period of colonisation, which dramatically marked the course of its history", emphasised the Angolan diplomat.
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The speakers at the gathering unanimously concluded that it is necessary a closer co-operation between the sub-regional organisations and the United Nations, chiefly with the UN Security Council, aiming for peace, stability and development in the world.
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