Africa-Press – Angola. The President of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, is due to travel to Angola in August, the Brazilian ambassador accredited in Luanda told Lusa, highlighting the “high expectations” and prospects for strengthening cooperation in areas such as Tourism and Defense .
With no dates yet defined, the expectation of the Brazilian Government and President Lula da Silva is that the visit takes place within the scope of the transfer of the presidency of the Community of Portuguese Language Countries (CPLP), currently held by Angola, to São Tomé and Príncipe, for which reason it is still dependent on the confirmation of the CPLP Summit, which should take place at the end of August.
“Expectations are the highest. President Lula has already indicated that he wants Angola to be the first country in Africa to be visited due to the nature of the bilateral relationship, due to Angola’s role, which is the gateway for Brazil’s policy for Africa, for the historical and economic weight of the relationship”, Rafael Vidal told Lusa.
The diplomat said that a series of agreements are being prepared in the area of Sustainable Tourism and Defence, namely the training and qualification of Angolan troops to integrate the United Nations rapid intervention forces in Africa, as well as agreements in the sector of Maritime Transport and Land and instruments for the implementation of the cooperation agreement in the area of Irrigated Agriculture.
“With the assumption of the new Government, there is an interest in enabling, facilitating, promoting the internationalization of Brazilian companies with the present economic and social bias. This is a differentiating factor of the new Government, that the actions of companies are connected with development strategies ”, stressed the Brazilian ambassador.
The notion that the State should be a promoter of development along with the private sector, intervening not only as a regulator, but also in the design of policies that allow the private sector to be an international policy tool consistent with expectations of poverty reduction and food insecurity, are some of the axes of this orientation.
“We cannot grow, develop ourselves, if our regional environment does not develop together”, he reinforced.
Rafael Vidal stressed that currently Brazilian and Angolan-Brazilian companies with international projection and diversified sectors are operating in the Angolan market. Among these are Odebrecht (OEC) and Queiroz Galvão, in the Construction sector, the Costa Negócios group, which is developing a factory for the exploration of pig iron (used in the production of steel), EuroFarma, which is building a medicine factory, as well as the VMD and Gemcorp groups of entrepreneur Valdomiro Minoru Dondo.
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