The president of the Assembly of the Republic (AR), Esperança Bias, will begin an official four-day working visit to Rwanda on Friday 5 April, where she intends to hold talks to intensify parliamentary cooperation with that country.
According to a statement released by the Agência de Informação de Moçambique (AIM), during her stay Bias is due to meet with the President of the Rwandan Chamber of Deputies, Donatille Mukabalisa, to analyse the stage reached in the memorandum signed by the two parties in 2022.
On Sunday (7), the head of the Mozambican parliament will take part, on behalf of the head of state, Filipe Nyusi, in the celebration of the 30th anniversary of the Rwandan genocide, which took place in 1994.
“In 1990, in Kigali, the two nations signed the General Cooperation Agreement, ratified by Mozambique in September of the same year,” the statement said.
On her trip, Esperança Bias will be accompanied by the rapporteur of the parliamentary caucus of the Front for the Liberation of Mozambique (Frelimo), Telmina Pereira, and the heads of the caucuses of the National Resistance of Mozambique (Renamo) and the Democratic Movement of Mozambique (MDM), Viana Magalhães and Lutero Simango, respectively.