Africa-Press – Mozambique. The governments of Mozambique and Eswatini on Friday signed agreements to boost economic cooperation, particularly in the areas of petroleum and gas and transport.
The agreements were signed at the start of an official visit by the Swazi monarch, Mswati III, and after technical and ministerial meetings between the two delegations.
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“At these meetings, we once again assessed our cooperation and we laid the groundwork for future cooperation to the mutual benefit of our peoples and countries”, said Mozambican President Daniel Chapo.
Chapo stressed the importance of deepening ties, particularly in industry, transport, logistics, ports, mineral and water resources.
One of the agreements signed established the framework for Mozambique to provide more electricity to Eswatini. The second is a memorandum between Mozambique’s publicly owned fuel company, PETROMOC and the Eswatini National Petroleum Company (ENPC), and the third is an agreement on exchanging experiences in air services.
Mswati said that signing these three agreements is the fruit of the working visit that Chapo made to Eswatini in June. He urged the two governments to follow up the agreements faithfully.
“We have given them two weeks to work on some questions”, he said. “I’m very pleased because the mandate given to our ministers has been fulfilled”.
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On Saturday, Mswati visited the Maputo Combined Cycle Power Station, which has an installed capacity to generate 106 megawatts of electricity. The power station is fired by natural gas extracted from the Temane gas fields in the southern Mozambican province of Inhambane.
Mswati stressed Eswatini’s interest in buying electricity from Mozambique and said he will shortly send a team of specialists to discuss mechanisms for transmitting electricity from the Maputo power station to Eswatini.
Alberto Banze, the administrator for power generation and transmission of the Mozambican publicly owned electricity company, EDM, told reporters that currently EDM is selling five megawatts to Eswatini.
“They have requested a further 25 megawatts, and we shall make it available”, he added.
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