Africa-Press – Angola. The European Union (EU) and the Angolan Government sign on Wednesday (21), in Luanda, four financing agreements in areas of the blue and circular economy, justice and good governance worth 90 million euros (1 euro is equivalent to approximately of Kz 900).
The information was provided this Monday by the European Union ambassador to Angola, Rosário Bento Pais, at the end of the meeting with the president of the National Assembly, Carolina Cerqueira.
The diplomat informed that the four financing agreements will be signed by the European Union Commissioner for International Partnerships, Jutta Urpilainen, and the Minister of Economy and Planning, Victor Hugo Guilherme.
The European Union (EU) Commissioner for International Partnerships arrives in Luanda, the country’s capital, on Wednesday.
To the press, Rosário Bento Pais recalled that Angola is benefiting from support of around 275 million euros (Kz 121 billion) from the European Union until 2024 and, from this period, until 2027, a second package will be negotiated by the partners.
The four-year, €275 million cooperation program covers areas such as economic diversification, governance and human development.
The diplomat considered the cooperation framework between the European Union and Angola positive.
Rosário Pais also said that he had discussed matters relating to the Joint Assembly between the EU and the Organization of African, Caribbean and Pacific States (OEACP) with the leader of the Angolan Parliament, after the signing of the Samoa Agreement.
The Samoa Agreement is a new general framework for relations between the EU and African, Caribbean and Pacific countries, covering six priority areas, namely democracy and human rights, sustainable economic development and growth, climate change, human and social development , peace, security and migration and mobility.
Officially signed on November 15, 2023, in Apia (Samoa), this agreement replaces the Cotonou agreement, which was in force between the EU and the countries of Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific.
The Agreement, which has been in force provisionally since January this year, includes a common base at the level of the OEACP States, combined with three regional protocols for Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific, focused on the specific needs of these regions.
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