Luanda - The President of the Republic, João Lourenço highlighted Thursday the role played by the Angolan diplomacy over the last 45 years, with emphasis on conflict which opposed the peoples of the southern region of the African continent to the apartheid regime that dominated South Africa.
The Angolan Head of State was speaking to the press after inaugurating the Diplomatic Academy "Venâncio de Moura", with the capacity to annually train 1,800 students in diplomacy and international relations.
"In our case, we remember that it was diplomacy that led to the quadripartide in New York and thus to the end of the conflict that opposed the peoples of this region to the apartheid regime", he stressed.
"States attach great importance to diplomacy, because it is diplomacy that ultimately establishes good relations of friendship and cooperation with other countries. It is diplomacy that prevents wars and, if there are wars, it is diplomacy that ends them", he stressed.
President Lourenço said that Angolan diplomacy had been successful over the country's 45 years of independence, pointing out that with the inauguration of the Diplomatic Academy, the future work will improve, with better trained staff in the country.
