The document, approved at the seventh ordinary session of the Council of Ministers, guided by the President, João Lourenço, also states that despite the economic and financial crisis that the country has faced since 2014, followed by the covid-19 pandemic, the executive worked on resolving the "major problems afflicting the population" and for the resumption of economic growth in 2021, as well as for the downward trend in the unemployment rate and general price level.
"The executive's focus was also on improving health and education conditions, promoting good governance and defending the rigor and transparency of public acts, fighting corruption and impunity, promoting economic stability and diversifying economy, as well as the guarantee of citizens' fundamental rights and freedoms, the rescue of citizenship values and the moralization of society", says the final communiqué of the meeting.
Regarding corruption, the Government considers that it is the main obstacle to the development of Angola, so "it is necessary to adopt measures leading to its elimination".
"Thus, the actions carried out against corruption have produced positive effects not only on the activities carried out by the State, but also on society in general, and the general perception that the phenomenon of corruption is a great social evil that must be fought fiercely", stresses the document.
At Monday's meeting, the Grains program was also approved, which includes the National Plan for the Promotion of Grain Production (Planagrão), a document that contains the assumptions for the implementation of actions aimed at promoting production and supply of four priority grains, in the period between 2022-2027, namely corn, rice, wheat and soy, to reduce the import of these products.
The Council of Ministers also approved, within the framework of the materialization of the measures contained in the Project for the Simplification of Procedures in Public Administration (Simplifica 1.0), a diploma that establishes the Regulation on the Issuance, Attribution and Use of the License for the Internal Transfer of Corpses, document that will authorize the requesting entity to transport or transfer a corpse from one province to another.
The aforementioned diploma, underlines the statement, in addition to filling the existing gap on this matter, also aims to simplify the procedures for issuing a license for the transfer or transport of corpses, eliminating the requirement of documents such as a death certificate, information on the health certificate, health declaration and police declaration of corpse transport, simply by submitting a request form, copy of the Identity Card and a Death Certificate or any other equivalent document.
In terms of public finances, the Council of Ministers approved the National Treasury's Financial Programming for the third quarter of the current year, a document that contains revenue assumptions and projections of inflows of financial resources and payments, as well as the operations with a direct and indirect impact on treasury and a brief approach to the risks involved in their execution.
The Council of Ministers approved the Medium Term Debt Strategy 2022-2024, a public debt management instrument that aims to guide the Government to establish more concrete goals and objectives in the context of contracting new financing and to carry out an increasingly prudent analysis of the cost and risk of the debt portfolio.
According to the statement, "the executive intends with this Strategy to meet the financing needs, maintaining the balance between reducing the cost of indebtedness and maintaining risk at sustainable levels, defining action goals for the three-year period in question".
In the oil and gas sector, several diplomas were approved granting the national concessionaire the mining rights to prospect, research, develop and produce liquid and gaseous hydrocarbons in the concession areas of blocks COM 1 and COM 6 in the onshore area of the Baixo Basin Congo, and KON 5, KON 6, KON 8, KON 17 and KON 20 of the Kwanza Basin onshore.
In the field of transport, the Presidential Decree was approved which regularizes the public domain of the coastline, in areas under the jurisdiction of the maritime-port authorities, with a view to restoring the normal use of these spaces for the exercise of profitable economic activities under market conditions, in the principles of equality, competition, transparency and free enterprise.
