Africa-Press – Angola. The Republics of Angola and Congo will sign, next November, a convention on Judicial Cooperation in Civil, Commercial and Administrative Matters and an agreement for the Constitution of the Joint Permanent Commission for Defense and Security between the two countries.
As part of the cooperation, the two countries will also sign an agreement on Political Consultations between the Ministries of Foreign Affairs of Angola and of Foreign Affairs, Francophone and Congolese Abroad and a regulation on the Organization and Operation of the Permanent Mixed Subcommittee on Defense and Security.
The draft agreements should be concluded in the next six months, according to the recommendations of the Commission for Bilateral Cooperation Angola and Congo, which met from the 18th to the 20th of this month, in the Congolese city of Brazzaville.
The delegations were led by the Angolan Minister of Foreign Affairs, Téte António, and the Congolese Minister of International Cooperation and Promotion of Public-Private Partnership, Denis Christel Sassou N’guesso, according to the commission’s final communiqué.
The parties addressed issues related to cooperation in the political, diplomatic, defense and security, economic, commercial and financial, as well as scientific, technical and cultural fields.
They highlighted the geographic, historical and cultural realities that link the two countries and that require them to have common obligations in the social and economic domains, with a view to improving the living conditions of the respective peoples.
They expressed their satisfaction with the friendly, fraternal and historic relations maintained at the highest level between Angola and Congo.
Formally, cooperation between Angola and Congo has been in force since September 24, 1976, the date on which the two countries initialed a friendship and cooperation treaty.
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