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Angola: Interparliamentary Union Urges Creation of Legislation Against Terrorism
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Angola Press Agency (Luanda)
18 April 2008
Posted to the web 21 April 2008
Cape Town
The 118th Interparliamentary Union (IPU) conference Angola is attending with a delegation headed by the National Assembly speaker, Roberto de Almeida, urged the national parliaments to adopt an efficacious anti-terrorism legislation, in line with the international instruments and engagements in the fight of this threat.
The call is part of the report from the IPU Commission for Peace and International Security, adopted Friday afternoon by the parliamentarians at the closing of the 118th conference held in Cape Town, South Africa, since Monday with representatives from 135 national parliaments.
The participants underlined that the said legislation should go in line with such international instruments as the UN world anti-terror strategy and the national security and individuals rights and freedoms.
The session also appealed to the national parliaments to secure an equilibrium among national security, human security and individuals freedoms.
On the other hand, the Commission for Sustainable Development, Finance and Trade, that tackled the parliamentary control over state policies in matters of external aid, called on the parliamentarians from donor countries to think over and seek for other means to finance the development in developing states.
On the parliamentary control of State policies in matters of external aid, the participants appealed to parliaments from donor countries to reflect and seek other means to finance the development in developing countries.
In this regard, they also recommended the adoption and implementation by the governments and all parliaments to ratify the international and regional instruments, aiming at the prevention and combat of corruption, capitals laundry and control of fiscal paradises.
The resolution on emigrant workers, human beings trafficking, xenophobia and human rights, tackled by the Commission for Democracy and Human Rights, exhorted the host countries to improve the living conditions of the immigrants, with a view to lessening the damaging consequences weighing on them.
"Pushing back the frontiers of poverty" was the main theme of the debates that focused on the world's political, economic and social situation.
Addressing the session on Monday, the Angolan National assembly speaker, Roberto de Almeida, appealed for the world mobilisation towards pushing back poverty, in line with the millennium goals.
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The 118th IPU conference was opened last Sunday by the South African head of State, Thabo Mbeki, who said the poverty reduction goals would help the African continent to score progress.
The 119ª IPU conference is scheduled to take place in Ethiopia, in 2009.
The Angolan delegation to the 118 conference included the MPs Bernarda da Silva, Samuel Daniel, Campos Tomás and Mário Sambwako.
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