Luanda - The UN Special Envoy for the Great Lakes Region, Huang Xia, said in the Angolan capital that the Luanda Agreement is what crystallizes hopes for effective peace in the Great Lakes region.
Huang Xia, who was speaking to the press after an audience granted by the President of the Republic, João Lourenço, informed that the meeting served to hear the Angolan Head of State's assessment of the progress of the situation in the region, for subsequent communication at the UN Security Council.
Huang xia took advantage of the occasion to inform the high appreciation that the UN Secretary-General, engineer António Guterres, has for the President of Angola for all the efforts undertaken to ensure that the Luanda process is the instrument through which, effective peace in the Great Lakes region can be achieved.
According to the special envoy, the South-Sudan President’s recent travel to Luanda revives the hope of effective coordination between the Luanda and Nairobi agreements, and the UN reaffirms its willingness to support both processes.
João Lourenço is the current president of the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR), an organization created in 1994 with the aim of resolving issues of peace and security, following the political conflicts that have marked the region.
Angola, Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo, Central African Republic, Rwanda, Sudan, South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Republic of Congo are ICGLR's members.
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