Africa-Press – Angola. Angola will soon host the Executive Secretariat of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Community of Portuguese Speaking Countries (CPLP), the secretary Manuel Augusto announced this Thursday in Luanda.
The secretary for International Relations of the MPLA Political Bureau was speaking to the press at the end of a working meeting with Brazilian deputies, within the framework of the State visit that President Lula da Silva is making to Angola from the 24th to the 27th of the current month.
“For this reason, our delegation was also made up of the leadership of the MPLA Parliamentary Group, who had the opportunity to discuss, with their Brazilian counterparts, practical ways to move from speech to action in parliamentary cooperation”, he said.
According to Manuel Augusto, Brazilian and Angolan parliamentarians reviewed the political, economic and social situation in each of the countries, as well as ways of strengthening relations between the MPLA Parliamentary Group and the deputies of the Brazilian Congress.
In this regard, he said that there was a very fruitful exchange of views that served to establish some programs to be implemented as soon as possible.
For him, the importance of this work meeting transcends relations between Angola and Brazil, as both countries are members of the CPLP which, in the coming days, will hold its summit of Heads of State and Government in São Tomé and Príncipe.
The president of the MPLA Parliamentary Group, Virgílio de Fontes Pereira, participated in the meeting, held at the headquarters of the party that governs Angola.
On the occasion, the president of the Brazil-Angola Parliamentary Friendship Group, Márcio Marinho, expressed his intention to restart a new story in the relationship between the two countries, involving the democratically elected governments.
For this reason, he considered the aforementioned meeting positive for addressing important issues, with emphasis on food security, science and technology, family farming, health, sickle cell anemia, milk bank, infrastructure, among others.
The republican federal deputy guaranteed that all matters to be approved and forwarded to the Brazilian parliament, within the framework of cooperation with Angola, will deserve special attention.
“Angola can count on the Brazilian Parliament. We will be supporting, stamping with all energy and security all kinds of agreements between the executives of Angola and Brazil, to strengthen this bilateral relationship”, concluded the president of the Angola and Brazil Parliamentary Friendship Group, which has existed for over six years .
The delegation, made up of deputies from various parties that support the new Brazilian government, included parliamentarians Reginete Bispo (PT/RS), Dandara Tonantzin (PT/MG), Iza Arruda (MDB/PE), Carol Dartora (PT/PR) , Jack Rocha (PT/ES), Damião Feliciano (União Brasil/PB), Orlando Silva (PCdoB/SP), Márcio Marinho (Republicanos/BA), António Brito (PSD/BA), Jonas Donizette (PSB/SP) and Senator Zenaide Maia (PSD/RN).
Brazil was the first country to recognize Angola’s independence, proclaimed on November 11, 1975, by President António Agostinho Neto. Its Embassy in Luanda was created by decree in December of the same year.
Cooperation between Angola and Brazil began to take shape on June 11, 1980, with the signing of the Economic, Scientific and Technical Cooperation Agreement.
Under this agreement, the two countries developed bilateral cooperation in the areas of health, culture, public administration, professional training, education, environment, sports, statistics and agriculture.
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