Luanda - The 2nd meeting of the National Security Council closed this Monday in Luanda, during which conflicts in the world and recent coups in Africa were analysed.
The President of the Republic and Commander-in-Chief of the Angolan Armed Forces, João Lourenço chaired the meeting, by which the members reviewed matters of interest to the life and functioning of the Defence and Security Bodies, the draft National Security Law and the Organic Statute of the Military Intelligence and Security Service.
At this meeting, which took place at the Presidential Palace, the members analysed issues considered important in the country's defence and security affairs, as well as learned about the situation of conflicts in the world and on the continent, especially coups d'état and the conflict in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
The National Security Council is made up of 23 members, including the Vice-President of the Republic, the speaker of the National Assembly, the Chief Justice, the Chief Justice of the Constitutional Court, the Chief Justice of the Supreme Military Court, the Attorney General of the Republic, the Minister of State and the Head of the Military Affairs Office of the President of the Republic.
The list also includes the ministers of state and head of the President's Civil Affairs, for Economic Coordination and for the Social Affiars, as well as the ministers of National Defence, Former Combatants and Veterans of the Homeland, the Interior, Foreign Affairs, Finance, Territorial Administration and Justice and Human Rights.
The council is also made up of the Chief of Staff of the FAA, the Commander General of the National Police, the Head of the State Intelligence and Security Service, the Head of the Military Intelligence and Security Service, the Director General of the External Intelligence Service, the Inspector General of the State Administration and the Director General of the Criminal Investigation Service.
The meeting was also attended by invited members and a technical group made up of other organisations involved in national security.
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