Luanda - The Angolan Head of State, João Lourenço, stressed on Friday (Jan 24), in Luanda, the importance of preserving global governance institutions, such as the United Nations (UN).
The President of the Republic was speaking at the New Year's greeting ceremony to the Diplomatic Corps accredited in Angola, having stressed that it is at the UN where all nations of the world can make themselves heard and express their concerns and concerns about progress and development.
He stressed that no association of countries constituted regionally or on any other basis should claim, assume or replace the role reserved for the United Nations, despite the fact that it needs to be profoundly reformed.
For President João Lourenço, it remains the only organization with the legitimacy to house all the nations of the planet, in order to decide on the fundamental and strategic issues of humanity.
For this reason, he considered that we must act together, so that the United Nations does not lose the central role that it has been playing and that, to a large extent, it has helped the world to overcome the enormous challenges it has faced in the last eight decades.
He said that, throughout this period, it has always sought to prevail and respect the fundamental principles in relations between States, such as the principle of respect for their independence and sovereignty, the inviolability of internationally recognized borders, non-aggression and non-interference in the internal affairs of third parties.
These principles, according to President João Lourenço, are still valid, although in recent years there has been a tendency for some States to claim the right, granted by themselves, to invade, occupy and annex territories under the pretext of the need to prevent external threats, a highly dangerous and intolerable precedent that is unfortunately happening in Europe. in the Middle East and Africa.
'It is with the prospect of restoring world peace and security that we face, with hope, that it will be possible to lead Russia and Ukraine to seek, through dialogue, a definitive solution to the conflict that opposes them,' he said.
The Angolan President also added that 'these two countries must seek points of understanding that will allow them to restore peace to their peoples and to Europe, before the conflict does not acquire proportions that lead to the outbreak of a war with catastrophic consequences for all humanity'.
For this reason, he said he welcomed the phased ceasefire agreement recently reached between Israel and Hamas on the Gaza Strip, resulting from dialogue and the persistence of diplomacy of the countries involved, namely the United States of America, Qatar and Egypt, which he congratulated.
The President said that he hoped that this agreement would be complied with and implemented with coherence and a spirit of compromise, so that all Israeli hostages, Palestinian prisoners, and all humanitarian aid would be sent to the inhabitants of Gaza.
Likewise, he said he hoped that 'the reconstruction of Gaza will still begin and this window of opportunity will not be lost so that, on the basis of the resolutions of the United Nations Security Council, the concrete steps that will lead to the creation of the State of Palestine will actually begin to be taken'. SC/DOJ
