Africa-Press – Angola. A message from the President of the Republic, João Lourenço, to his Rwandan counterpart, Paul Kagame, was delivered Saturday, in Kigali, by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Téte António, the content of which was not revealed to the press.
According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in a statement, the visit to Kigali of the head of Angolan Diplomacy took place 24 hours after he participated in Kinshasa in the 10th High Level Meeting of the Regional Oversight Mechanism of the Framework Agreement for Peace, Security and Cooperation. (PSC) in the Democratic Republic of Congo and the Great Lakes Region.
Angola and Rwanda established diplomatic relations in 2002 and the legal-legal basis for bilateral economic and technical cooperation was defined only on 15 May 2014, with the signing of the Framework Cooperation Agreement and other instruments that constitute the legal support for cooperation . Rwanda opened the Embassy in Luanda in 2015 and, at that time, appointed the resident extraordinary and plenipotentiary ambassador, while Angola did so in 2018 and the diplomatic mission in March 2019, which started the bilateral cooperation process. to have practical effects.
On 26 August 2020, the Angolan Executive approved three legal instruments, signed in 2014 by the ministers of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, namely the Framework Cooperation Agreement, the Agreement on the Creation of the Bilateral Commission and the Memorandum of Understanding on Political Consultations.
The two countries also have an agreement in the field of Security and Public Order, which defines the concrete lines of action. On 27 January this year, Presidents João Lourenço, of Angola, and Paul Kagame, of Rwanda, held a video conference call, during which they discussed the strengthening of relations between both nations.
At that time, the two statesmen spoke about the relations that link the two countries, with a view to strengthening and deepening them.
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