"We must privilege the conquest of peace in our African Central region and
make sure that wherever there are problems affecting peace, they are solved
in a peaceful way" so says Angolan Minister Jo�o Miranda.
Mr. Minister sir, what then do you make of the move by some western countries
to promote and inflame conflicts in African by funding armies dictatorial
military regimes such as that of Yoweri Museveni of Uganda who are war
mongers and bent on fighting useless wars? The move by some of this western
countries, clearly undermines, the effort by Angola, as you rightly pointed
out, to seek peaceful means to resolve conflicts in Africa.. don't you think
so?
Matek
Foreign Minister On Resolution of Conflicts in �frica
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Angola Press Agency (Luanda)
January 9, 2003
Posted to the web January 13, 2003
Luanda
Foreign Minister Jo�o Miranda Thursday said that one of the priorities of the
Angolan diplomacy for 2003 is to contribute for peaceful resolution of
conflicts in Central �frica.
"We must privilege the conquest of peace in our African Central region and
make sure that wherever there are problems affecting peace, they are solved
in a peaceful way", the Minister told his staff at a new-year greetings
ceremony in Luanda.
According to Jo�o Miranda, in the African continent still exist many regions
affected by civil war. "It is our concern that these conflicts be resolved
through dialogue. This is the principle behind our external policy", he
stressed.
He said thunderguns should be replaced by voices of sane men, and added that,
"by backing this principle, we are definitely giving a meaningful
contribution for world peace, and we can not abdicate from this principle",
he underlined.
He also referred the fact that, despite the end of the cold war, the world
still lives a worrying situation, instead of co-ordination of efforts meant
to solve regional focus of tensions and move decisively toward social
well-being at planetary level. "Regrettably it is not happening", he said.
"We turned up at the Security Council at a time of this entanglement,
therefore, with our modest contribution, we should defend the principle that
the world must be fair for everybody", Jo�o Miranda voiced at a ceremony
intended for Directors and Heads of Departments of the Ministry of Foreign
Affairs.
To him, for justice to be equal it is necessary that the Security Council
exherts its universal competency of driving or handling world peace.
"We believe that, by doing so, we can avoid major problems that can affect
the entire humanity", said the Angolan chief diplomat, adding that, in the
ambit of internal activities for 2003, the ministry will give priority to
peace consolidation.
To reach this goal, the Minister defended the need of social reinsertion of
displaceds and war victims, aiming the nation's development.
On this last point (development), Jo�o Miranda fingered out the
rehabilitation of economic and social infrastructures destroyed by the ended
war.
According to the Minister, the contribution of his ministry will be in the
sense of relaunching international cooperation, bringing public and private
investments into the country.
"This is the main mission in the field of economic diplomacy, which is now
one of the great priorities for 2003", the Minister concluded.
