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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, we have just heard the discourse of war, the discourse that has led to war, the discourse that has led to the continued failure of international mediation. That was not our intention. Our intention is to contribute to peace, because at last consistent signs are coming from Angola that some lasting change may happen in that country. That is the major piece of news of the last few months. Amid the news of the terrible ongoing war, it is these signs of peace that are strongly emerging from the civil society of Angola and which make our vote today so urgent. It is these signs that we are turning to, to point them out, embrace them and encourage them. We do not want just to cry over more deaths or lament further destruction. We want to welcome those people who, with courage, generosity and independence, coming from the churches and the many sections of Angolan society, are carving out a new path that can lead to national reconciliation and lasting peace. Let us listen to the Angolans. They know more and better than we do. The AMC, the broad movement of citizens, a civic platform recently launched in Luanda, speaks to us of inclusive national reconciliation. Inclusive in the sense of not excluding anyone, because it is the poisonous spirit of exclusion that spreads war, misery and ruin throughout Angola. Inclusive because the spirit of including everybody is a precondition for reconciliation, and because without true reconciliation to restore confidence there will be no peace.
The Angolans want peace. Let us listen to the Angolans, let us trust that internal mediation and the energy of the civil movements can succeed where international mediation has failed. Let us follow the voice of the Angolans, good people, not just those of the AMC but those of so many movements that fervently hope for peace: the Inter-Church Committee for Peace in Angola, the Angolan Reflection for Peace Group, the ‘Peace and Development’ Women, who today are holding an international conference in Luanda, the Martin Luther King Association, the Justice, Peace and Democracy movements, the Village of Peace, the Messengers of Peace, the Mosaic, and still more, like the Forum on the multiple consequences of war a few months ago, from which there sprang an appeal for an immediate cease-fire. These are the voices we must listen to. We must recognise their features, learn their names, publicise their faces, shake their hands. Because the tragic recent history of Angola teaches us one thing: we must only trust those who talk of peace without arms in their hands, with gestures and instruments of peace. We have to stop this monopoly of the bipolarisation of war.
I therefore ask you to join in an invitation that I have already asked the President to make so that we here can listen to the vision of Angola and the future of peace that people aspire to, people like Dom Zacarias Kamuenho, Vieira Lopes, Rafael Marques, Justino Pinto de Andrade, William Tonnet, Chivukuvuku, Marcolino Moco, Cesinanda Xavier, and others, who have joined this civil movement for peace. These are the ones who can teach us a lot. Angola is still suffering, but it does not have to be like that. This Angola of peace hopes that we will be able to send out new, different signs to the new signs with which it is challenging us."@en1
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