Africa-Press – Angola. The Angolan ambassador to Nigeria, José Bamóquina Zau, said on Tuesday in Abuja that actions in the context of relations between Africa and Europe need to be guided by a spirit of pragmatism, free from prejudice and bureaucracy, as these often hinder the implementation of important joint decisions.
The Angolan diplomat made the statement during a ceremony presenting the results of the 7th African Union-European Union Summit to the diplomatic corps accredited in Nigeria. The summit took place in Luanda on November 24th and 25th.
Zau argued that “Africa cannot continue to be dominated by poverty when it supplies essential raw materials to the world.”
He identified investment in development as the most effective way to avoid the suffocation caused by excessive debt burdens.
“Africa has already suffered too much in terms of injustice and discrimination,” said the diplomat, highlighting the African Union’s challenge for the next decade: “Justice for Africans and people of African descent through reparations.”
He stressed that this is a sensitive issue but necessary to define the future of relations, migration, mobility, and integration.
The European Union Ambassador to Nigeria, Gautier Mignot, expressed encouragement regarding the results of the 7th Luanda Summit, which launched a new vision for cooperation between African and European financial institutions, capable of responding to current global and local geopolitical challenges.
“Over the past 25 years, the AU-EU partnership has evolved into one that delivers real results — a dynamic framework for cooperation spanning peace and security, green and digital transitions, economic integration, and education. This is the objective of the EU’s Global Gateway Investment Strategy, which has invested at least 150 billion Euros,” explained Ambassador Mignot.
He said that the Africa-Europe Initiative aims to support the development of manufacturing value chains to help the African continent exploit its own resources, in line with the AU’s Agenda 2063, as well as initiatives to strengthen integration, such as the Continental Free Trade Area.
Developed countries are committed to mobilizing at least 300 billion US dollars by 2035 from public and private, bilateral and multilateral sources to finance pan-African infrastructure, ambitious climate action, agriculture, renewable energy, and industrialization.
The Luanda Declaration of November 25 recommends that trade relations between Africa and Europe be a source of stability, based on commitment, and that channels of dialogue remain open, transparent, and within the bounds of the international order.
The DRC is key to the future.
The two ambassadors acknowledged that the Peace Agreements for the DRC, signed last week in Washington, D.C., offer hope for building a prosperous future for the Congolese and African peoples.
“We understand that peace in the DRC is key to removing the barriers fueling instability and underdevelopment in the Great Lakes region,” said Bamóquina Zau.
They called on the international community to support the mediation efforts of the Republic of Angola, the African Union, the United Nations, the Qatari authorities, and President Donald Trump, who brought the parties together to sign a peace agreement and launch a reconstruction plan for the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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