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July Summit With Portugal to Assess Bilateral Cooperation

July Summit With Portugal to Assess Bilateral Cooperation

The Portuguese secretary of state for foreign affairs and cooperation said on Monday that the 5th bilateral summit between Portugal and Mozambique in July will be a “good time” to assess the strategic plan for cooperation between the two countries.

“This summit will be a good time to take stock of the strategic cooperation programme, which has now ended, and also to work and look to the future,” said Francisco André.

The Portuguese secretary of state for foreign affairs and cooperation (SENEC) was speaking in Maputo after a meeting with the Mozambican deputy minister for foreign affairs and cooperation, Manuel Gonçalves, to prepare for the summit.

He said that the new cooperation programme between the two countries, also to be discussed at the summit, would focus on education, health and the environment, considered to be “fundamental areas”.

The Portuguese minister also said that the summit would also “assess and highlight” military cooperation between Mozambique and Portugal, mainly with a view to “expressing total and unequivocal solidarity” in the face of the terrorist threat in northern Mozambique.

“We want this to be a summit with a lot of content that shows this relationship that both countries consider to be excellent on a diplomatic, political and economic level,” he said.

Asked by journalists, SENEC declined to confirm dates, however, Mozambican Mateus Magala, as vice president of the African Development Bank (ADB), told Lusa in May that the meeting would take place between 11 and 13 July.

The initiative will also serve to launch the Lusophone Compact, a programme through which Portugal provides financial guarantees of 400 million euros for investments in Portuguese-speaking African countries – but Magala has since been appointed minister of transport and communications.

The bilateral summit between Portugal and Mozambique was scheduled for 4 and 5 November, 2021 but was postponed due to the rejection of the Portuguese state budget for 2022, which led to the dissolution of parliament and the calling of early legislative elections.

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