The Vice-president of MPLA, Roberto de Almeida, admitted on Wednesday in Luanda that the Parliamentary Groups of the Forum on the ruling parties in SADC countries, whose institutionalization might happen during this second meeting, may contribute to the integration of the Southern African region.

The politician said so when speaking to the press at the end of an audience granted to the representatives of parliamentary groups of political parties in power in Mozambique, South Africa, Namibia, Democratic Republic of Congo, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Swaziland and Seychelles, who are in Luanda to attend the Forum, opened on Wednesday.

Roberto de Almeida, who said to have made a portrait of the MPLA's activity at this moment, argued that under the parliaments there are bodies that accompany economic activity and boost through various laws, the integration of Southern Africa.

He stated that the MPLA is engaged, through the Executive, in assuming its responsibilities within the framework of the Southern African Development Community (SADC), but there are still some assumptions to be met to sign the agreement establishing a regional cooperation in trade, industry and other fields.

“We cannot immediately integrate this framework, but we are making efforts to integrate the SADC economic terms by 2017”, said the MPLA official, who reaffirmed the desire to strengthen the friendly relations and cooperation among the SADC ruling parties, with a view to economic integration, one of the main objectives of the regional organization.

During two days, the forum is discussing “Policies of Economic Integration in SADC”, “Conflicts Prevention and Resolotion”, “Democracy and Development in the Region”, “Legal Framework of Integration and SADC Body” and “The Movement of People and Goods and their Constraints in SADC”.

Experts of the parliamentary groups of the ruling parties in Southern Africa will approve “Luanda Declaration”, as well as the institutionalization of the Forum, as a space of dialogue and concert of ideas on pressing problems affecting about 220 millions of inhabitants in the southern Africa.