Africa-Press – Angola. Angola and Cuba updated sectoral conventions, agreements and memoranda of understanding, within the framework of the XV Session of the Intergovernmental Commission for Economic and Technical-Scientific Cooperation, held on the 6th and 7th of this month, in Havana.
Following the technical meetings, two new important memorandums of understanding were reached and signed within the framework of bilateral cooperation, which specifically targeted the sectors of Higher Education, Science, Technology and Innovation, as well as Youth and Sports.
Additionally, the parties pointed out the ways to streamline the implementation of agreements, conventions and memorandums that are already in force and for the preparation of others in the most varied domains, notably the sectors of Finance, Health and Justice.
Action plans and targets were also defined for attracting foreign direct investment in the two countries, with a view to deepening business relations under the direct monitoring of AIPEX, on the Angolan side, and PROCUBA, on the Cuban side.
The Minister of State and Chief of Staff of the President of the Republic, Adão de Almeida, headed the Angolan delegation that evaluated the terms of strengthening bilateral cooperation with the Cuban counterpart, whose delegation was headed by the Deputy Prime Minister, Ricardo Cabrisas Ruz.
The two delegations generally evaluated the course of bilateral cooperation, highlighting the advances registered in themes of common interest and importance in the most varied domains and projecting the cooperation actions to be implemented in subsequent periods.
On the sidelines of the technical meetings, Minister Adão de Almeida carried out an intense work agenda that included high-level audiences with the Cuban authorities, with emphasis on the meeting with the Prime Minister of the Republic of Cuba, Manuel Marrero Cruz, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Bruno Parrilla, and the Minister of Economy, Alejandro Gil.
The Angolan delegation includes the Angolan ambassador to Cuba, Maria Cândida Teixeira, the Secretaries of State for International Cooperation, Domingos Vieira Lopes, for National Defence, José Maria de Lima, for Finance and Treasury, Ottoniel dos Santos, for Higher Education, Eugénio da Silva, for the Hospital Area, Leonardo Europe, as well as the President of AIPEX, Francisco Lello.
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