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Angola calls for progressive implementation of African integration

Nouakchott, ANGOLA, July 4 - Angolan Minister of Foreign Affairs, Manuel Augusto, defended Sunday in Nouakchott, Mauritania a progressive implementation of the instruments and mechanisms established to facilitate integration of the African continent.,

 Angola head of diplomacy that is in the Mauritanian capital for the 31st African Union (AU) summit underlined that the country welcomes all instruments leading to the continent integration among them the African Single Market for Air Transport, the Continental African Free Trade Area and the Protocol on the Free Movement of Persons, Right of Residence and Right of Establishment.

 

Speaking to Angop Manuel Augusto underlined that those agreements, mechanisms and understandings should be implemented based on reality hence the need for them to be  happened progressively.

 

Concerning the free movement of people and goods on the continent, the diplomat stressed that African countries must prepare themselves, create mechanisms and infrastructures necessary to exercise control and guarantee public security.

The Angolan head of diplomacy who represented the Angolan president Joao Lourenco, ahead of a national delegation mentioned that all the above instruments are considered as essential to put in place the so long aspiration concerning the socio-economic integration of the African continent.

 

In January this year in Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) 23 African countries launched the Single Air Transport Market (SAATM) an initiative of the African Union (AU) and a major step towards cheaper continental flights as well as improving intra-African air connectivity.

Still in the first quarter of 2018 in March this year in Kigali, Rwanda, 44 African countries signed an agreement which creates a single market for goods and services on the continent, the African Continental Free Trade Area  (CFTA) which aims to boost industry, infrastructure development, economic diversification and trade across the continent.

The Protocol on the Free Movement of Persons, Right of Residence and Right of Establishment, also signed in March this year in the Rwandan capital, is another major achievement of the AU which provides reciprocal protection of nationals by States in their territories with the guarantee of the right to enter, stay and move freely.

This Protocol prohibits discrimination against African nationals by any State, based on their nationality, race, ethnic group, color, sex, language, religion, political or other ideology, national or social origin, success, birth or other status.

The 31st African Union (AU) summit ended Monday 2 in the Mauritanian capital.

 

Convergence in the fight against corruption

In another perspective, the Minister Manuel Augusto considered the convergence between Angola and the African Union (AU) in speeches aimed at fighting corruption to be a "happy coincidence".

According to Manuel Augusto, corruption today is a universal struggle, and all African leaders consider and understand that it has an influence "in all efforts to improve people's lives.

"It is a happy coincidence that Angola has chosen as its priority the fight against corruption and that Africa has also instituted this year as a year to mark its fight against corruption," said the head of the Angolan diplomacy.

 

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