Cuito – The Bureau of the United Nations Standing Advisory Committee on Security (UNSAC) is making a visit to Angola, to share experiences on how this southern African country achieved definitive peace and continues to work to ensure its preservation and consolidation.
The multisectoral delegation is led by Ambassador Sara Silva, director of Multilateral Affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Angola.
They include, among others, Ambassador Francisco da Cruz, Angola's permanent representative to the United Nations, and senior officials from the Ministries of Interior, Defense, Territorial Administration and Intelligence and State Security Services.
For three days, the delegation that arrived in the province of Bié on Monday, will visit different locations, monuments and remarkable sites.
On the first day in this region, the delegation met with members of the provincial government and visited the Battle of Cuito Memorial, a cemetery where more than seven thousand bodies lie.
They then headed to the municipality of Cunhinga, where they learned about the demining process in this province.
On Tuesday, the UNSAC delegation will work in the municipalities of Camacupa and Catabola, where they plan to visit an agricultural farm, the geodetic center, a rice farm, a seedling center and the peace prize ceramics.
This field visit, which will also cover Benguela and Huambo, falls within the scope of regular plenary sessions on the dynamics of peace and security in the sub-region.
The work is also part of the activities of the 57th Session of UNSAC, held in May 2024, in Luanda.
UNSAC is made up of the 11 Member States of the Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS), namely Angola, Rwanda, Burundi, Congo, Cameroon, Central African Republic, São Tomé and Príncipe, Chad, Democratic Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea and Gabon.
The Committee Bureau is made up of the Chairperson of the host country, two Vice-Presidents and a Rapporteur, all with a six-month mandate.
Angola currently assumes the rotating Presidency of the UNSAC Bureau Committee.
Angola has enjoyed lasting peace for 22 years, with the agreements signed on April 4, 2002, thus putting an end to the civil war that had ravaged the country for almost three decades.
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