UN General Assembly
2014

it poses a threat to regional security, with serious consequences for peace, stability and development. Angola strongly condemns the acts committed by terrorist groups and expresses its support for efforts to ensure the full neutralization of those groups. Angola supports efforts to strengthen the crisis-management capacity of the United Nations and considers dialogue and negotiation to be the best means of resolving conflicts. We will continue to meet our international obligations, with special emphasis on the African continent and the regional groupings in which we operate, including the Southern African Development Community, the Economic Community of Central African States, the African countries that use Portuguese as an official language, the Gulf of Guinea Commission and the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region, with a view to defining mechanisms and forms of cooperation with the United Nations, the African Union, the Community of Portuguese-speaking Countries and other international partners. Angola assumed the rotating presidency of the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region in January, and in that forum continues to promote the