Speaking at the opening of the extended advisory council of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, João Lourenço referred to regions such as Africa and South America, "whose voice cannot be neglected, because it can be decisive in making decisions on key issues such as peace and security, food security, environmental protection, public health and others that have to do with survival at a global level".
"Safe and lasting solutions have not yet been found for dangerous and protracted conflict situations such as that on the Korean peninsula and the Israeli-Palestinian one, whose Security Council resolutions have been disrespected and ignored," he said.
The head of state recalled that there was never effective peace in the world after the second world war, despite the creation of the United Nations, whose role is to guarantee world peace and security.
According to João Lourenço, the absence of a balance of interests is at the origin of many of the current problems, "and hence the need for world leaders to assume the responsibility of making a profound reflection on the central and unavoidable role that the United Nations must have, of so that the destinies of humanity are constructed on the basis of scrupulous respect for and observance of the norms of international law and the Charter of the United Nations".
According to the President, Africa is facing numerous armed conflicts, some internal and others between neighboring countries, situations for which Angola has sought with its experience to help overcome the problems that affect its neighboring countries.
Everything "so that they dialogue, negotiate peace and, thus, begin to dedicate all their energies and available resources to the exclusive service and economic and social development of their countries", he referred.
João Lourenço stressed that Angolan diplomacy defends the negotiated and peaceful resolution of conflicts of any size and scope and on any continent.
"The world follows with great concern the outbreak of war by Russia against Ukraine and the annexation of territories of an independent country, a situation that Angola condemns", he referred.
João Lourenço called for "to an unconditional ceasefire to create the environment for the start of negotiations, for the establishment of a lasting peace and to avoid the escalation of a war that has already caused the biggest humanitarian, food and energy crisis that the world has known since the end of World War II, in 1945, and for representing the greatest threat to world peace and security due to the direct or indirect involvement of the greatest international powers".
