Luanda – Presidents of Angola João Lourenço and his Senegalese counterpart Macky Sall discussed Wednesday in Luanda the urgent need to overhaul the United Nations Security Council.
The two Statesmen spoke to the press at the Presidential Palace after signing cooperation agreements in the fields of oil, trade and tourism.
The Angolan Head of State said the permanent members of the Security Council are mostly represented by the great powers that won the second world war, which ended 77 years ago, and do not represent the interests of Africa, Latin America and part of Asia. .
João Lourenço noted that the Security Council, which decides on the world situation, no longer reflects the reality of today, because the world has evolved in the economic and geopolitical domains, among others.
He backed a permanent work on reforms of the Council, noting that the conflict in Ukraine shows the inequality in the treatment of refugees, displaced persons and victims of conflicts and calamities.
In turn, the Senegalese President stated that the urgent reforms is due to the fact that the rules predate national independence in Africa, which currently has more than one billion inhabitants.
Macky Sall stressed that the discrimination of representation is repeated in the economic field, in the World Bank and in the International Monetary Fund, so Africa, as a continent of developing countries, calls for justice, in the general interest.
