UN General Assembly
2011

Council, including the imperative of achieving fair representation for all regions and increasing the number of permanent members, thereby adapting the Council to contemporary reality. With regard to peaceful cooperation at the regional level, Angola is a member of the Southern African Development Community (SADC), the Economic Community of Central African States, the Gulf of Guinea Commission and the Community of Portuguese-speaking Countries (CPLP), which, with several partners, has acted on the basis of preventive diplomacy in the search for peaceful solutions to the various crises that have arisen. With regard to the constitutional crisis in Madagascar, SADC mediated the recent signing by all parties involved of the road map for the implementation of the reconciliation process, which is intended to lead to elections and the restoration of constitutional order. That was an important breakthrough in the process, which Angola welcomes. Guinea-Bissau, our brotherly country and partner in the Community of Portuguese-speaking Countries, has been the subject of special attention by Angola. As part of the CPLP, Angola and other member States have striven to establish a strategic partnership with