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INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
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The Republic of
Angola is member of the Organization of African Union (OUA), of the
African Development Bank (AFDB) and of the Organization of the United
Nations (ONU) and its specialized agencies, as the International Bank
for Reconstruction and Development (BIRD) and the The world business
organization (OMC).
At regional level,
this country is part of the Southern African Development Community (SADC),
of the Common Market of Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) and of
the The Community of
Portuguese Language Countries (CPLP).
The SADC vision is
the construction of a true regional integration, acting the
participant countries of adjusted form, aiming in the reduction of the
external economic dependence and to the mobilization of supports for
national and regional projects. Are also members of this organization
the following countries: South Africa, Botswana, Mauritius, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Democratic Republic of
the Congo; Seychelles, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
The COMESA has in sight
the liberalization of the circulation of merchandises, services and
capitals and the
creation of a customs and monetary union, up to 2004 and 2025,
respectively, between the States that integrate it - Angola,
Burundi, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Madagascar,
Malawi, Mauricio's Islands, Namibia, Kenya, Rwanda, Democratic
Republic of the Congo, Seychelles, Swaziland, Sudan, Uganda, Zambia
and Zimbabwe. The CPLP presents as
general objectives the political and diplomatic coordination among its
members; the economic, social, cultural, legal, technical and
scientific cooperation; and promotion and diffusion of the Portuguese
language.
At
the level of the relations with the UE, on the 13th of June of 2000 it
was signed the
Cotonou Agreement, which entered in vigour on the 1st of April of 2003,
and it comes to substitute the Lome Conventions that during
decades had fit the cooperation relations between the State-members of
the UE and the countries of Africa, Caribbean and Pacific (the ACP).
With a validity
period of 20 years, this Agreement establishes a new regulating legal
picture of the cooperation between the parts, whose main objective
consists in the reduction of the poverty and, in long term, its
eradication, the sustainable development and the gradual and phased
integration of the ACP countries (taking
care of the specificities of each one), in the world-wide economy.
Angola ratified the Agreement in 23 of February of 2003.
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