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"We also fought against the invaders." The President of Angola condemned the Russian invasion of Ukraine
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28.12.2022, 09:35
The President of Angola, where Moscow's influence has historically been strong, condemned Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Juan Lourenço stated this in an interview with
VOA Português .
When, in the 1980s, the head of the Angolan state recalled, the Soviet Union helped his country repel the South African invasion thanks to the supply of weapons and ammunition, the Angolans were very grateful to Moscow.
But, Lourenço stressed, “since we fought against the invaders, we understand that the rest have the same right,” and therefore “we don’t understand how those people who helped us fight against the invaders” have now occupied part of the neighboring state.
"A sovereign state determines its own foreign policy, and, being a sovereign state, we must condemn the annexation of four (actually six - Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson, Zaporozhye regions, Crimea and Sevastopol. -
Ed .) Ukrainian regions," he said. is he.
Lourenço also stated that official Luanda is interested in purchasing American types of weapons / NATO weapons and in the United States taking part in the country's defense reform.
As
the Center for African Studies notes, after the statement of the President of Angola, Russian propaganda resources "began threatening anti-Angolan rhetoric" - we are talking about looking for splits in the country's political elite, in particular, mentioning that the vice president of the republic, Bornito de Souza, is allegedly against such a policy.
In addition, the resource writes, the Russians "threaten their support for UNITA, that is, they would like to unleash a new civil war in Angola."
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