Luanda - The Angolan Head of State, José Eduardo dos Santos, on Thursday here defended the setting up of fundamental national goals for convergence in the framework of the regional integration process, within the Southern Africa region, ANGOP has learnt.

The Angolan President said so while speaking at the closing ceremony of the 31st Summit of Heads of State and Government of the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC).

The president pointed out as goals aspects such as industrialisation, diversification of production, banking of the economy, development of infrastructures - roads, bridges, railways, telecommunications, storage centrals, distribution and trading circuits- as well as education, technological investment and macroeconomic consolidation.

José Eduardo dos Santos reminded that the regional integration process0 demands that the national programmes of infrastructures construction should converge, as much possible, with the regional necessities. 
 

"It is our understanding that the integration that we desire depends much more on the internal efforts of each of our countries in the domains of reconstruction, modernisation and stabilisation, than on the strengthening of commercial exchanges in an open market", President José Eduardo dos Santos said.
 

The Angolan statesman also said that the summit that ended on Thursday highlighted that the development of infrastructures is the unavoidable path to consolidate the basis for regional integration.