Africa-Press – Cape verde. The Deputy Prime Minister, Olavo Correia, defended this Monday the need and adoption of a diplomatic strategy in order to defend the specificities of Cape Verde in the context of the implementation of the African Free Trade Zone (Zelecaf).
“We must always seek to defend our interests. Cape Verde is an archipelagic country and a specific country in the context of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and we must have a strategy at the level of Cape Verdean diplomacy to defend the specificities of Cape Verde”, he defended.
Olavo Correia, who was speaking to the press after a meeting with a delegation of seven administrators from the African Development Bank (AfDB), which today began a mission to Cape Verde, recognized, however, that it would not be easy, as it is a small island country and archipelago in ECOWAS, having their own specificities, have a strategy to defend them.
“But we have an obligation to develop a diplomatic strategy to defend these specificities, not only in the context of ECOWAS, but also to all other development partners of Cape Verde. We must do everything to ensure that this is ever more present and that Cape Verde has a voice on these stages to defend its position as a small insular State”, he added.
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