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SPEECH PROCLAIMED BY HIS EXCELLENCY JOSÉ EDUARDO DOS SANTOS, PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF ANGOLA, AT THE SOLEMN CEREMONY OF PROMULGATION OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE REPUBLIC OF ANGOLA
LUANDA, FEBRUARY 5TH, 2010

YOUR EXCELLENCY PRESIDENT OF THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY
YOUR EXCELLENCY PRESIDENT OF THE CONSTITUCIONAL COURT,
YOUR EXCELLENCY PRESIDENT OF THE SUPREME COURT,
YOUR EXCELLENCY PRIME MINISTER,
YOUR EXCELLENCY ATTORNEY GENERAL,
DEAR MEMBERS OF THE PARLAMENT,
DEAR MEMBERS OF THE GOVERNMENT,
DISTINCT GUESTS,
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN

On November 11th , 1975 the Angolan People conquered their politic independence.
Throughout the years, with the gradual adoption of policies each time more adequate to the protection of the natural wealth of the country, was also conquering economic independence.

The great conquests that followed were the multi-party democracy, at the beginning of the 90’s, and the definitive peace, in 2002.
Today, in this historical and solemn act, the Angolan People will conquer for the first time a genuinely national Constitution that marks the end of the transiton period in which we were living and definitively establishes a Democratic and Rule of Law State.
This Magnum Law, that answers the necessities and nobler expectations of our People and defines the master strings in which our common future will be built on, is fruit of a long and open debate, free and democratic with all the living forces of the Nation.
It had, with effect, important contributions from all the Parties with parliamentary seat and a high percentage of suggestions collected in the process of public consultation.

It is therefore very significant that 94 percent of its content has been approved by consensus, what denotes concern and respect for the opinion of the people and corporations involved in its elaboration.

Only in about 20 of its 244 articles the desirable consensus did not exist, reason why it was subject to approval, with only two abstentions, by the Members of the Parliament to whom the People decided to give power to represent them it in the 2008 elections.
Finished this task, the State will have to create the conditions so that General Elections are carried out in 2012, year when that mandate ends.

The new Constitution reaffirms and consecrates in its structural principles the pluralist and representative democracy, the unitary character of the State, the valorization of the work and the respect for the dignity of the human being, the free economic and enterprise initiative, social justice, the participation of citizens and the primate of the Law.
It represents therefore a significant advance in the consolidation of our democratic process and in the creation of conditions for the harmonious and sustainable development of the country.

The Constitution also guarantees the politic, economic and social stability, therefore it prevents and it hinders eventual institutional blockings and it allows that all Angolans know their basic rights and duties without margin for any doubt.
In the domain of family protection and gender equality, the State will implement actions that will be liable to promote equal opportunities, rights and responsibilities in all domains.

In what concerns youth, we will work so that it becomes, each time more, better prepared from the scientific, technical, cultural and professional point of view, looking and promoting common values and respecting our socio-cultural diversity.
Under the light of its concepts and principles, we have now to promote reforms in the central and local administration of the State, in the administration of the fiscal justice system as means to strengthen the institutional capacity of the country.

We also have to develop the country’s economy in a sustained way, with regional balance and international integration, therefore, only through the continuous increase of the revenue, associated with the equity of its distribution; a significant improvement of the life level of the Angolan families will be reached.

The basic objective of all the economic and social policies is, in fact, the uprising of well-being of the Angolan Man.

Thus, the public policies and the instruments to adopt for its enabling must provide to all society politic stability; macroeconomic stability; basic support infrastructures; knowledge; technology; raw material availability; respect and protection of private property; reconnaissance of the title of land while asset; rule of the Law; celerity of justice; capable institutions and simplicity in the creation and licensing of the economic activity.

They must equally fight poverty and promote assistance and social welfare, guaranteeing support and protection to handicaps, old age and war veterans, through social integration and integral protection of children rights, eradicating the social phenomenon of street boys and fighting the child work.

On the other hand, they must also consolidate the legal and institutional frame that allows the urbanization of the agrarian State reservation, where, in a safe way, families organized for auto-construction, as well as societies of construction, housing cooperatives and other institutions can implant real estate projects.

In this context, it is essential to approve instruments of environmental management tending to provide the integration and conciliation of environment aspects in all the general and sector programs and economic and social development plans, as premise for the sustainable development.

The State will also ensure that the foreign policy of our country has as one of its main objectives of action, together with the politic-diplomatic relations, the aspects related to social and commercial order, in order to internationalize the Angolan economy, strengthening, extending and consolidating the competitive insertion of Angola in the international arena.

The migratory policy should be lead in a coherent way with the plans of national development, safeguarding the prerogatives inherent to the principles of the exercise of sovereignty and defense of territorial integrity, regarding the admission of foreign citizens in the domestic territory.

Finally, but not of less importance, the State will continue to create conditions so that the press is each time stronger, plural, exempt, responsible and independent, giving expression to the multicultural reality of the country and contributing to strengthen the unity of the Nation and stimulate the sprouting and development of national private initiative, in the different domains of the Mass Mediums.
All these indispensable actions of the State have now a legal support, legal and politic in the new Constitution, because in it are clearly express, as is example of all the democratic Constitutions, the form of the State, the separation of powers, the mode of designation of the government members and the rights of citizens.

In this scope, the establishment of an efficient and effective executive machinery capable to assist in fact the President of the Republic in its quality of bearer of the executive power is imposed.
In this perspective the ministerial departments will be set up in a more practical and operational mode, with human and technical capacities to guarantee the execution of the Program of Government of the Party in power.

With the promulgation of the Constitution, we proved once more that we have the capacity to manage and solve our own matters, without external interferences, and that we know how to be original and to take into account our reality without entering in shock with the democratic principles universally accepted.

I congratulate all the ones that in some way contributed for us to overcome, also, this decisive stage in the construction of a free, sovereign, democratic and independent Nation.

As a happy coincidence, yesterday we celebrated one more anniversary of the beginning of this glorious party, on February 4th, 1961.


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	SPEECH PROCLAIMED BY HIS EXCELLENCY JOSÉ EDUARDO DOS SANTOS, PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF ANGOLA, AT THE SOLEMN CEREMONY OF PROMULGATION OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE REPUBLIC OF ANGOLA LUANDA, FEBRUARY 5TH, 2010 YOUR EXCELLENCY PRESIDENT OF THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY YOUR EXCELLENCY PRESIDENT OF THE CONSTITUCIONAL COURT, YOUR EXCELLENCY PRESIDENT OF THE SUPREME COURT, YOUR EXCELLENCY PRIME MINISTER, YOUR EXCELLENCY ATTORNEY GENERAL, DEAR MEMBERS OF THE PARLAMENT, DEAR MEMBERS OF THE GOVERNMENT, DISTINCT GUESTS, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN On November 11th , 1975 the Angolan People conquered their politic independence. Throughout the years, with the gradual adoption of policies each time more adequate to the protection of the natural wealth of the country, was also conquering economic independence. The great conquests that followed were the multi-party democracy, at the beginning of the 90’s, and the definitive peace, in 2002. Today, in this historical and solemn act, the Angolan People will conquer for the first time a genuinely national Constitution that marks the end of the transiton period in which we were living and definitively establishes a Democratic and Rule of Law State. This Magnum Law, that answers the necessities and nobler expectations of our People and defines the master strings in which our common future will be built on, is fruit of a long and open debate, free and democratic with all the living forces of the Nation. It had, with effect, important contributions from all the Parties with parliamentary seat and a high percentage of suggestions collected in the process of public consultation. It is therefore very significant that 94 percent of its content has been approved by consensus, what denotes concern and respect for the opinion of the people and corporations involved in its elaboration. Only in about 20 of its 244 articles the desirable consensus did not exist, reason why it was subject to approval, with only two abstentions, by the Members of the Parliament to whom the People decided to give power to represent them it in the 2008 elections. Finished this task, the State will have to create the conditions so that General Elections are carried out in 2012, year when that mandate ends. DISTINCT GUESTS, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, The new Constitution reaffirms and consecrates in its structural principles the pluralist and representative democracy, the unitary character of the State, the valorization of the work and the respect for the dignity of the human being, the free economic and enterprise initiative, social justice, the participation of citizens and the primate of the Law. It represents therefore a significant advance in the consolidation of our democratic process and in the creation of conditions for the harmonious and sustainable development of the country. The Constitution also guarantees the politic, economic and social stability, therefore it prevents and it hinders eventual institutional blockings and it allows that all Angolans know their basic rights and duties without margin for any doubt. In the domain of family protection and gender equality, the State will implement actions that will be liable to promote equal opportunities, rights and responsibilities in all domains. In what concerns youth, we will work so that it becomes, each time more, better prepared from the scientific, technical, cultural and professional point of view, looking and promoting common values and respecting our socio-cultural diversity. Under the light of its concepts and principles, we have now to promote reforms in the central and local administration of the State, in the administration of the fiscal justice system as means to strengthen the institutional capacity of the country. We also have to develop the country’s economy in a sustained way, with regional balance and international integration, therefore, only through the continuous increase of the revenue, associated with the equity of its distribution; a significant improvement of the life level of the Angolan families will be reached. The basic objective of all the economic and social policies is, in fact, the uprising of well-being of the Angolan Man. Thus, the public policies and the instruments to adopt for its enabling must provide to all society politic stability; macroeconomic stability; basic support infrastructures; knowledge; technology; raw material availability; respect and protection of private property; reconnaissance of the title of land while asset; rule of the Law; celerity of justice; capable institutions and simplicity in the creation and licensing of the economic activity. They must equally fight poverty and promote assistance and social welfare, guaranteeing support and protection to handicaps, old age and war veterans, through social integration and integral protection of children rights, eradicating the social phenomenon of street boys and fighting the child work. On the other hand, they must also consolidate the legal and institutional frame that allows the urbanization of the agrarian State reservation, where, in a safe way, families organized for auto-construction, as well as societies of construction, housing cooperatives and other institutions can implant real estate projects. In this context, it is essential to approve instruments of environmental management tending to provide the integration and conciliation of environment aspects in all the general and sector programs and economic and social development plans, as premise for the sustainable development. The State will also ensure that the foreign policy of our country has as one of its main objectives of action, together with the politic-diplomatic relations, the aspects related to social and commercial order, in order to internationalize the Angolan economy, strengthening, extending and consolidating the competitive insertion of Angola in the international arena. The migratory policy should be lead in a coherent way with the plans of national development, safeguarding the prerogatives inherent to the principles of the exercise of sovereignty and defense of territorial integrity, regarding the admission of foreign citizens in the domestic territory. Finally, but not of less importance, the State will continue to create conditions so that the press is each time stronger, plural, exempt, responsible and independent, giving expression to the multicultural reality of the country and contributing to strengthen the unity of the Nation and stimulate the sprouting and development of national private initiative, in the different domains of the Mass Mediums. All these indispensable actions of the State have now a legal support, legal and politic in the new Constitution, because in it are clearly express, as is example of all the democratic Constitutions, the form of the State, the separation of powers, the mode of designation of the government members and the rights of citizens. In this scope, the establishment of an efficient and effective executive machinery capable to assist in fact the President of the Republic in its quality of bearer of the executive power is imposed. In this perspective the ministerial departments will be set up in a more practical and operational mode, with human and technical capacities to guarantee the execution of the Program of Government of the Party in power. DISTINCT GUESTS, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN With the promulgation of the Constitution, we proved once more that we have the capacity to manage and solve our own matters, without external interferences, and that we know how to be original and to take into account our reality without entering in shock with the democratic principles universally accepted. I congratulate all the ones that in some way contributed for us to overcome, also, this decisive stage in the construction of a free, sovereign, democratic and independent Nation. As a happy coincidence, yesterday we celebrated one more anniversary of the beginning of this glorious party, on February 4th, 1961. LIVE ANGOLA!