Africa-Press – Angola. The National Assembly (AN) received technical support (IT material) from the Parliament of the Kingdom of Morocco, as part of the 147th Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (UIP), taking place from the 23rd to the 27th of this month, in Luanda.
The technical means were delivered this Tuesday, in the Angolan capital, by the ambassador of the Kingdom of Morocco in Angola, Saadia El Alaqui, during a meeting with the secretary general of the National Assembly, Pedro Agostinho de Neri.
The Moroccan Parliament also decided to send a team of interpreters to support the National Assembly’s technicians in the work of the General Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (UIP).
The Moroccan diplomat said this was a commitment made by her country’s Parliament, during the visit of the president of the National Assembly, Carolina Cerqueira, to the Kingdom of Morocco, last April.
He informed that, within the framework of this visit, the two countries decided to create a new dynamic in inter-parliamentary relations, with the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding.
However, the secretary general of the National Assembly, Pedro Agostinho de Neri, considered Morocco’s support as a landmark moment in inter-parliamentary relations between the two countries.
He recalled that they had the opportunity to visit the parliament of the Kingdom of Morocco, less than four months ago, with a delegation led by the president of the National Assembly, Carolina Cerqueira, as part of strengthening inter-parliamentary relations.
According to the secretary general of the National Assembly, the Moroccan Parliament was prepared, within the framework of this visit, to help Angola in this great task of organizing the IPU meeting.
“No matter how much we have, the resources are always insufficient, because of the needs of the dynamics itself. Morocco lent us some IT equipment, including computers”, said Pedro de Néri, for whom the most important thing is not just the material, but the gesture that country had.
He made it known that the Kingdom of Morocco has even made interpreters available to the National Assembly who will help communication with the delegates who mainly come from the Arab world.
For him, the help from the Kingdom of Morocco in fact opens a new era in relations between the two parliaments.
He made it known that, at the level of the parliamentary administrations of the two countries, they have in mind a cooperation protocol that will make it possible to increasingly strengthen these relations, fundamentally in terms of exchanging experiences and in the area of training.
In this regard, he explained that they intend, at the level of the National Assembly, to open a training area for employees and to help deputies to perform better, fundamentally with what parliamentarism is, using the experience of other countries.
Conditions created for the UIP event
The secretary general of the National Assembly assured that the conditions have been created for the 147th Assembly of the Interparliamentary Union (UIP) from a technical, material and protocol point of view.
He made it known that there is a specification with shared responsibilities, that is, those of the organizing country and the international organization itself (UIP secretariat).
So far, 120 countries have confirmed their presence to participate in the magnificent event, which takes place under the motto “Parliamentary Action for Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions”.
Angola/Morocco relations
Political and diplomatic relations between Angola and the Kingdom of Morocco date back to the beginning of the process of the National Liberation Struggle of the African Peoples against colonial domination.
Following Angola’s independence, the two governments decided to establish diplomatic relations, through the establishment of embassies in Luanda and Rabat.
In October 1988, the General Agreement on Economic, Scientific, Technical and Cultural Cooperation was signed, which allowed the first Session of the Angolan-Moroccan Bilateral Joint Commission to be held in Rabat in October 1989.
The second Meeting of the Bilateral Joint Commission between the two countries took place in November 2013, in Luanda.
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