Brazilian academic and researcher Eduardo Filippi considered last week, in Luanda, that his country, with the election of Lula da Silva as President of that South American nation, will be more present in African issues again.
The researcher, who was speaking to the press at the end of a roundtable on “Brazil’s Foreign Policy Perspectives for Africa in the Lula Government”, said his country has been absent from African issues over the last four years and that president Lula da Silva, based on the Angola-Brazil relationship, would be able to project this country in the African continent.
To Eduardo Filippi, who is a lecturer at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, cooperation between Angola and Brazil will continue in the agriculture and health sectors.
During the roundtable, one of the speakers, Brazilian academic André da Silva, said that historically there is an oscillation in relations between Brazil and Africa that depends a lot on the internal dynamics of African countries.
According to him, when there is some ascendancy of the African continent, whether from the political, diplomatic or economic point of view, it tends to receive more attention from Brazil.
When the continent, according to Silva, is fragile, this repels Brazil from drawing closer to Africa.
On his turn, the deputy general director for studies and research area of Angola’s Venâncio de Moura Diplomatic Academy, Matias Pires, speaking as moderator of the round table, said the event demonstrates that Brazil praises a lot, relations with Angola.
The Strategic Partnership between Angola and Brazil was signed in 2010, but technical cooperation between the two republics began to take shape in 1980 with the signing of the Economic, Scientific and Technical Cooperation Agreement, on June 11 of that year.
Under this agreement, Brazil and Angola developed cooperation in the health, culture, public administration, vocational training, education, environment, sports, statistics and agriculture sectors.
Brazil was the first country to recognize the independence of Angola proclaimed on November 11, 1975.
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