Africa-Press – Angola. The King of Spain, Felipe VI, arrived in Luanda on Monday night, for a three-day official visit to Angola, his first to the country.
Upon their arrival in the Angolan capital, the monarch and his wife were received by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Téte António, and the Spanish ambassador in Angola, Manuel Larrera Lobo, without making statements to the press.
According to the program that, on Tuesday, King Felipe VI will go to the Memorial Dr. António Agostinho Neto to pay homage to the first President of Angola, who died in 1979.
On the same day, he will be received at the Presidential Palace, in Cidade Alta, by the Angolan Head of State, João Lourenço.
The program, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Angola (MIREX), includes a speech at the National Assembly and participation in an Angola-Spain business forum.
Cooperation relations between Angola and the Kingdom of Spain are based on the General Cooperation Agreement, signed on May 20, 1987, and the Complementary Agreement to the General Agreement, initialed in November 1987.
In the business sector, Spain has more than 60 companies operating in Angola in various sectors, such as energy, banking, civil construction and agriculture.
Official data indicate that the accumulated value of Spanish investments in Angola reached 518 million Euros (one euro is equivalent to just over Kz. 500.00), since 2018.
According to the same data, in 2020, Spain exported 87 million Euros to Angola and imported goods worth 548 million, also Euros.
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