Luanda, ANGOLA, November 30 - A contingent of mixed Angolan military forces left on Thursday in Luanda for the Kingdom of Lesotho to join a Southern African Development Community (SADC) peacekeeping mission there.,

This is a contingent made up of 160 military personnel and has been provided with logistics to deal with the first 45 days of a six-month mission.

On the ground, the Angolan peacekeepers will join that of other SADC member countries, forming a battalion.

At the Luanda Military Base, where they embarked, National Defense Minister Salviano Cerqueira highlighted Angola's efforts to maintain peace in the region.

Angola has made commitments. It includes organizations of world-wide, continental and regional scope whose action has for the political conciliation, the peace and the socioeconomic development, he said.

Among these organizations, he went on saying, is SADC, where one of the member countries, the Kingdom of Lesotho, faces a delicate political-military situation that requires institutional solidarity and the support of the regional bloc member States.

 

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