News from Angola – The Vice-President of the Republic, Esperança da Costa, arrived this Tuesday morning, in the Municipality of Mbanza Kongo, Province of Zaire, where she chaired, on the same day, the 1st Ordinary Session of the National Multisectoral Commission for Safeguarding the World Cultural Heritage.
According to the statement that Notícias de Angola had access to, upon arrival in that Northern Province of the country, Esperança da Costa received welcome greetings from the Provincial Governor of Zaire, Adriano Mendes de Carvalho, and the ministers of Territorial Administration and Culture and Tourism, Dionísio José da Fonseca and Filipe Zau.
According to the document, on the sidelines of the meeting of the Commission for the Safeguarding of World Cultural Heritage, Esperança da Costa has on its agenda hearings with representatives of local civil society, in addition to inaugurating the “Comandante Bula” Cultural Center.
During her 48-hour stay in the historic city of Mbanza Kongo, the Vice-President of the Republic also visits places of interest to the aforementioned Commission and social enterprises in the Province, with emphasis on the Ruins of Kulumbimbi, the Cemetery of the Kings of Kongo, as well as such as the works on the future “Nimi a Lukeni” Airport and the Zaire General Hospital.
Created under Presidential Order No. 25/18, of March 5, and recently updated by Presidential Order No. 93/23 of May 3, the National Multisectoral Commission for the Safeguarding of World Cultural Heritage is responsible for promoting the implementation of programs conservation and participatory management of cultural heritage, taking into account the need to adopt special measures to monitor national cultural heritage of exceptional universal value.