Addis Ababa - Angola defends the need to increase production and dissemination of documents drafted in Portuguese, one of the six official and working languages of the organisation.
Angola’s stance was expressed by the ambassador to Ethiopia, Djibouti and Permanent Representative to the African Union (AU) and the UN Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), Francisco José da Cruz.
According to a press note from the Angolan Embassy in Ethiopia, reached ANGOP on Friday, Francisco da Cruz said so during a meeting with the Director of Information and Communication of the Continental Organisation, Leslie Richer.
The two diplomats called for need to revive the Portuguese version of the continental organisation's website, recognised as an essential
communication vehicle.
Still on Friday, Francisco José da Cruz received the deputy governor of Huila province for politic, Social and Economic sphere,
Maria João Francisco Chipalavela.
The official attended from the 24th to the 26th of this month in the Ethiopian capital, the meetings on Data and Civil Registration and Vital Statistics, sponsored by the African Union, with the support of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) and of the African Development Bank (AfDB).
African Union was founded in 2002, it is the successor to the Organisation of the African Unity (OAU), created in 1963.
