The President, João Lourenço, who is since this Thursday the acting president, until August 2024, of SADC, highlighted the need for the financial contribution "for the organization to be able to carry out all the initiatives", aiming at the growth of the community.
"We recognize that today we are much better than before in terms of meeting the deadlines in terms of contributions, but I am convinced that we still have not reached the excellence that we intend", he said.
According to João Lourenço, there is an "increasingly pressing" need to continue working at the level of the organization and with the possible contributions of its international cooperation partners, to equip themselves with the means and tools necessary to carry out the priority commitments in the Indicative Strategic Plan of Regional Development.
"It is of paramount importance to raise funds to support social and human capital development and to strengthen technical and professional education and training systems, as well as for the creation and modernization of essential infrastructure for regional integration", highlighted.
At a press conference, João Lourenço said that "the summit went well" and SADC's two biggest concerns are the commitment to human capital, "to youth, women, men in the broadest sense", to ensure commitment in the coming years with a serious impact on the industrialization of the region and the continent.
"To that end, we are committed to mobilizing resources to invest in infrastructure, roads, railways, ports, airports, but above all, investing in two essential goods that are a fundamental condition for talking about industrialization, which are the greater supply of water and energy", stressed João Lourenço.
The acting president of SADC stated that the greatest legacy of this mandate, the third that Angola assumes, "is to seek to comply with the decisions that were taken collectively" and "do everything to, together with the other heads of state", comply, as far as possible, the main decisions taken at the Luanda summit.
Particularly in the area of economic and social development in the region and regional defense and security, "which can be considered stable", except for the situations in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRCongo) and Cabo Delgado, in Mozambique, he pointed out.
The political leadership of SADC by Angola should be marked by two points of tension, namely the conflict in the east of neighboring DRCongo and acts of terrorism in Cabo Delgado, Mozambique, where SADC has a force (SAMIM - Missão Militar da África Austral) to combat Islamic fundamentalism.
SADC is an economic bloc formed by the Portuguese-speaking Angola and Mozambique, in addition to South Africa, Botswana, Democratic Republic of Congo, Comoros, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Namibia, Swaziland, Seychelles, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
The 43rd Summit of Heads of State and Government took place under the theme "Human and Financial Capital: Key Factors for the Sustainable Industrialization of the SADC Region".
