Africa-Press – Angola. Angola and Ethiopia will soon sign a General Cooperation Agreement and Memorandum of Understanding for Political Consultations, the Angolan Embassy in that country announced this Wednesday, in Addis Ababa.
According to a press release, the Angolan ambassador to Ethiopia, Miguel Bembe, and the director general of African Affairs of the Ethiopian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Fesseha Shawle, concluded, this Tuesday, that the conditions are created for the signature of both documents.
The legal instruments of cooperation, explains the note, could be signed on the sidelines of the 44th Ordinary Session of the Executive Council of the African Union, to be held on the 14th and 15th of February this year, in the Ethiopian capital.
The diplomats also envisaged the conclusion of the Agreements on Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters, the Transfer and Extradition of Prisoners, as well as the Air Services Agreement, based on the proposal presented by the Ethiopian side.
Since the establishment of diplomatic relations in 1977, Angola and Ethiopia have signed few legal cooperation instruments, highlighting the Bilateral Air Services Agreement, concluded and initialed on May 20, 1977.
It is also worth highlighting the Memorandum of Understanding between the Aeronautical Authorities, signed on September 15, 1998, and the Commercial Agreement on Exchange of Products and Goods on January 26, 1981.
Relations between the two countries are historic and friendly, encouraged by the defense of multilateralism in resolving global problems and pan-Africanism on the basis of implementing the AU’s Agenda 2063, called “The Africa we want”.
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