In an interview with Lusa in Brussels, the current Secretary General of the Organisation of African, Caribbean and Pacific States stresses that "there is no crisis that is insoluble" and notes that Angola already has a lot of experience in resolving internal conflicts.
"Angola has this experience of having conflicts that have sometimes opposed the Angolan community as a whole, but I am sure that there is a deep desire from President João Lourenço to consolidate peace in Angola, and Angola in recent years has always worked to consolidate peace at a national level, and I don't see anything that could harm Angola so that it can consolidate its peace and move forward," he said.
Underlining that "adversities and difficulties all countries have", Chikoti reinforces that, "in recent years, Angola has always shown capacity for openness, capacity for dialogue, for rapprochement with all the communities" of the country.
"Therefore, I am confident that the Government of Angola can achieve peace in all areas. And we have peace to reign in the whole territory. I don't know the scale of the quarrels in Cabinda, but I'm sure that the Angolan government is investing a lot in the consolidation of peace", he concluded.
The Cabinda region has been the scene of confrontations between the Cabinda State Liberation Front (FLEC) and the Angolan Armed Forces.
Through its "armed arm", the FAC [Cabindan Armed Forces], FLEC fights for independence in the territory claiming that the enclave was a Portuguese protectorate, as established in the Treaty of Simulambuco, signed in 1885, and not an integral part of Angolan territory.
Created in 1963, the independence organisation was divided and multiplied into different, ephemeral factions, with the FLEC/FAC remaining the only movement claiming to maintain an 'armed resistance' against the Luanda administration.
More than half of Angola's oil comes from Cabinda.
