Africa-Press – Angola. The challenge of launching a new path to ensure that Africa ceases to be a space of exploitation, insecurity and mass migration is one of the objectives of the Summit that has been taking place since Sunday in Rome, Italy, with the presence of several Heads of State and of Government.
Angola participates in the meeting with a delegation led by the Minister of State for Economic Coordination, José de Lima Massano, representing the President of the Republic.
A statement states that Italy intends, with this event, for the economic opportunities of the African continent to serve its inhabitants and act as a fertile market for the global economy.
Italy intends to achieve this objective through the implementation of a strategic plan, called “Plan Mattei”, in honor of the founder of the oil company Eni, Enrico Mattei.
The Plan lasts 4 years and can be updated during its term. It will cost 2.8 million euros per year, starting in 2024, and will be co-financed by several countries.
According to the statement, the Plan’s areas of action are cooperation for development, including the promotion of exports and investments, education and professional training, research and innovation, health, agriculture and food security, supply and sustainable exploitation of natural resources. , environmental protection and the fight against climate change.
Furthermore, it focuses on the modernization and reinforcement of infrastructures, including digital ones, as well as the valorization and development of the energy partnership, in the field of renewable sources, and support for entrepreneurship, particularly for young people and women.
The Plan was announced as one of the most important points of the government’s program, capable of “eliminating the causes that lead migrants to abandon their lands, cultural roots and family to seek a better life in Europe”.
The Plan is also presented as a “virtuous model of collaboration and growth between the European Union and African nations, also to combat the worrying spread of Islamic radicalism, presented by the Italian Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni, at the press conference of the Council of Ministers, shortly after taking office in October 2022.
The Italian Prime Minister had guaranteed that relations with Africa would be at the center of the Italian presidency of the G7 (the group that brings together the 7 main economies of the most advanced countries in the world) and that they would also be taken to the center of the Union’s decisions. European Union, in Brussels, in search of synergies with the EU’s Global Gatway, which aims at projects for Africa, largely already defined and secured for around 300 billion euros, over a period of 7 years.
According to the statement, 57 delegations that include Heads of State and Government or their representatives, EU leaders, representatives of the World Bank, IMF, FAO, UNESCO, UN, Unicef, UNHCR, as well as other entities from global political and economic life, are present at the event.
The Angolan delegation includes ambassador Fátima Jardim, the PCA of the National Oil and Gas Agency, Paulino Gerónimo, and the president of the Board of Directors of the Agrarian Development Support Fund (FADA), Felisbela Maria Francisco, and senior technicians.
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