The chief executive, acting president of the International Conference of the Great Lakes Region (CIRGL), and the highest leader of the United Nations (UN) spoke on the phone, according to a note from the Secretariat for Institutional Communication and Press Affairs of the President of the Republic.
The conversation between the two leaders comes a day after the death of two soldiers from the United Nations peacekeeping forces in CAR during an attack in that country, the organization said.
The mineral-rich Central African Republic has faced a wave of interfaith and intercommunity attacks since 2013 and violence has intensified following the recent presidential elections.
Portugal currently has 243 military personnel on RCA, of which 188 are part of the UN mission (Minusca) and 55 are participating in the European Union (EUTM) training mission, led by Portugal, by Brigadier General Neves de Abreu, until September 2021.
In November of last year, Angola assumed, for the second time, the rotating presidency, for two years, of CIRGL, a mandate that will be marked by a joint work to eradicate armed groups, said President João Lourenço at the time.
The head of state, who was speaking at the end of the 8th CIRGL summit, held by video conference, also said that the mandate will be marked by respecting the peace agreements concluded in the region and working to lift the sanctions imposed against the Burundi, as well as the fight against the common enemy, the covid-19.
CIRGL is made up of Angola, Burundi, Republic of Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Central African Republic, Rwanda, Sudan, South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia.
