Luanda – The Angolan Head of State, José Eduardo dos Santos, Wednesday in Luanda, admitted that “some of our essential goals” are still to be  achieved, such as eradication of famine, poverty, illiteracy, social injustice, intolerance and prejudices of racial, regional, tribal
nature and others.

“Despite the positive results we have achieved,” said the President in his traditional yearend message to the Nation, “there is and will always be, as it is natural (…), because of the evolution and growth, aspects and problems that require more attention and priority settlement, in the domains of education, health, housing, employment, supply of water and electricity.”

The State, the civil society and the private sector must continue combining and increasing effort toward correcting what is bad, improve what is good, create new things where necessary, in order to “increase our capacity to respond and meet the needs of the society,” said José Eduardo dos Santos.

The President recalled that the path to development and progress is trodden with the work of each citizen and demands from every public or private enterprise and each public institution certain discipline, a clear orientation and responsible guidance.

According to the President of the Republic, the path do development and progress also “requires the unity of the Nation, social cohesion, political stability and respect for citizens’ rights, freedoms and guarantees, as well as respect for the democratic institution.”

For this reason, “we must continue creating conditions for no national citizen to feel excluded from the country’s growth process, or discriminated against by factors of subjective order.”

He explained that the realisation of these intention of social inclusion requires the adoption of public policies that accelerate the integration of the economic agents of the informal sector into the formal economy, through the de-concentration of the administrative, economic, productive, social and cultural activity from the capital of the country and from the provinces’ headquarters to the municipalities, communes, towns and villages, in order “for us to channel there more technical, financial, material and human resources, through the public administration and enterprises and combat regional asymmetries.”

“Thus, we will gradually create conditions and opportunities for all to benefit from the climate of peace and the fruits of national reconstruction and the country’s development,” he also said.

This trend will be accentuated as from the year 2012, he said, through a better coordination of the implementation of the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprise Law, of the national programme of rehabilitation of secondary and tertiary roads, of the water for all programme, of the municipalisation of the health services, of the programme of development and rural trade and of the social housing programme.

To him, the said Law must be applied in a creative way in order to benefit the small entrepreneurs, such as women that deal in street vending, creators of culture like musicians, music producers, dance and theatre associations, handicraft artists, plastic artists, etc.