Africa-Press – Angola. The President of the Republic, João Lourenço, said Thursday in Brasilia that Angola counts on Brazil’s technological experience to help the country develop other branches, in order to stop depending only on oil.
Speaking at the meeting with the President of the Federal Senate and the National Congress of Brazil, Senator Davi Alcolumbre, as part of his visit to the South American country, the Head of State referred to its technological development in several areas, with emphasis on agriculture, science, health and industry.
He stressed that Angola wants to follow the example of Brazil, which, ‘although it has oil like us, has always taken care of developing other branches of its economy. Angola must follow this path, it cannot continue to fall asleep just by relying on oil revenues’.
He recalled that oil is a commodity whose prices almost never depend on producers.
They depend on other factors, fluctuate a lot and, for this reason, economies are only strong when they manage to have different developed branches, which Angola intends to do, he added.
The Angolan statesman underlined, on the other hand, the ties of friendship and economic cooperation between the two states, stressing that they have always been the best possible, and expressed interest in rekindling this ‘flame’ of friendship between the peoples of Angola and Brazil, the first country in the world to recognize Angola’s independence, proclaimed on November 11, 1975.
For his part, the president of the Federal Senate and the National Congress of Brazil, Senator Davi Alcolumbre, corroborated the need to strengthen relations, including at the parliamentary level.
On the first day of the visit, João Lourenço also met with Deputy Hugo Motta, president of the Chamber of Deputies, and with the president of the Federal Supreme Court, Luís Roberto Barroso.
The highlight of the visit of the Head of State will be the meeting with President Lula da Silva, Friday, the day on which the signing of agreements and an official lunch at the Itamaraty Palace, headquarters of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Brazil, is scheduled.
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