Angola and Mozambique renew parliamentary cooperation program

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Angola and Mozambique renew parliamentary cooperation program
Angola and Mozambique renew parliamentary cooperation program

Africa-Press – Angola. Angola and Mozambique signed, this Friday, in Luanda, a memorandum of parliamentary cooperation for the renewal of representative, supervisory and parliamentary diplomacy activities for the period 2023-2025.

The document was signed by the president of the National Assembly of Angola and the Assembly of the Republic of Mozambique, Carolina Cerqueira and Laurinda Bias, as part of the official visit of the Mozambican parliamentarian to the country.

The objective of the program is to implement the Cooperation Protocol between the Angolan Parliament and the Assembly of the Republic of Mozambique, signed on 27 November 2003 in the fields of political-parliamentary activity.

The program is governed by the principles of cooperation and exchange, shared responsibility, mutual consultation, political and gender representation, as well as periodic evaluation, with actions to be carried out in Angola and Mozambique, including exchange of experiences and study visits.

Carolina Cerqueira highlighted, on the occasion, that the visit of the Mozambican counterpart to Angola aims at renewing the 2016-2018 Political Cooperation Programme, for the institutionalization of parliamentary cooperation mechanisms between the two countries.

He considered the visit that the Mozambican counterpart is making to the country to be of capital importance, due to the fact that none of the activities of the political and administrative cooperation programs signed by the two parliaments in the period from 2016 to 2018 had been carried out.

The president of the Assembly of the Republic of Mozambique, Esperança Bias, hopes that the signed memorandum will, in fact, serve to bring the two peoples and countries closer together.

“We, as parliamentarians and representatives of the people, have to bring our peoples closer and closer and this can be done in different ways and the reinforcement of parliamentary cooperation is one of the ways”, he expressed.

It is the first time that Esperança Bias officially visits Angola, after assuming the presidency of the Assembly of the Republic of Mozambique on January 13, 2020.

On this trip to Angola, Esperança Bias is accompanied by the heads of the FRELIMO, RENAMO and MDM parliamentary groups, Sérgio José Camunga Pantie, Viana da Silva Magalhães and Lutero Simango Chimbirombiro, respectively, as well as staff from the General Secretariat of the Assembly of Republic of Mozambique.

During their stay in the country, the Mozambican delegation plans to travel to Benguela province, where they will pay a visit to the Local Support Office for the Provincial Electoral Circle and a meeting with governor Luís Nunes.

The Mozambican Parliament is made up of a single Chamber, called the Assembly of the Republic (AR), which is the highest legislative body in that country in the Indian Ocean. Each legislature comprises five years.

Of the 250 deputies that currently make up the Mozambican Parliament, 184 are from FRELIMO (the ruling party), 60 from RENAMO and six (6) from MDM.

On September 5, 1978, Angola and Mozambique signed the General Agreement on Economic, Scientific, Technical and Cultural Cooperation, with the formation of the Bilateral Cooperation Commission on the same date.

Since its constitution, the Bilateral Commission has held nine meetings, the last of which took place in Luanda from 26 to 28 August 2014.

Bilateral relations were strengthened with the visit of President João Lourenço to the city of Maputo, in January 2020, where he participated, as a guest of honour, in the investiture and inauguration ceremony of the re-elected President of that country, Filipe Nyusi.

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