Africa-Press – Angola. This Monday, the Minister of Finance began a three-day official visit to Portugal, which highlights the meeting with the Portuguese counterpart, Fernando Medina, and the assessment of financing lines.
The visit of Vera Daves de Sousa, according to the press release from the Ministry of Finance, aims to strengthen financial and technical cooperation ties, as well as interaction with Portuguese financial institutions, which have been funding various public projects included in the General State Budget.
The Angola-Portugal bilateral cooperation relationship, which the Angolan Government intends to reinforce with this visit, is characterized, at a financial level, by a line of financing and, at a technical level, by the interaction between the tax administrations, within the scope of a Administrative assistance in the Customs area.
During its stay, the Angolan delegation has scheduled technical meetings with units of similar structures of the finance ministries of the two countries, with emphasis on meetings between study offices and between public institutes that manage the public debt.
The visit program also includes a meeting with the General Directorate of Accounting, with a view to addressing technical cooperation in matters such as the accounting system in Portugal, internal control, the IT System Applied to Public Accounting, within the framework of Angola’s vision to migrate for the adoption of IPSAS (International Accounting Standards Applied to the Public Sector).
Minister Vera Daves de Sousa is accompanied by directors of the Studies and International Relations Office, Patrício Neto, of the National Directorate of Public Accounting, Sílvio Custódio, and of the Public Debt Management Unit, Dorivaldo Teixeira.
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