{"id":55667,"date":"2024-02-13T21:24:32","date_gmt":"2024-02-13T21:24:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/portugal-proposes-to-alter-eu-mandate-in-cabo-delgado"},"modified":"2024-02-13T22:18:34","modified_gmt":"2024-02-13T22:18:34","slug":"portugal-proposes-to-alter-eu-mandate-in-cabo-delgado","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/portugal-proposes-to-alter-eu-mandate-in-cabo-delgado","title":{"rendered":"Portugal proposes to alter EU mandate in Cabo Delgado"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Mozambique. <\/strong><\/span>Portugal is going to propose in Brussels a \u201cchange to the mandate\u201d of the European Union\u2019s training for Mozambique\u2019s armed forces in view of the departure of the SADC counter-terrorism mission in Cabo Delgado, the Portuguese minister of foreign affairs announced on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith the experience we\u2019ve gained and also with the change in reality due to the departure of the SADC [Southern African Development Community] troops, we\u2019re going to propose a renewal of the European Union\u2019s training mandate and an amendment to that mandate so that it\u2019s a little more comprehensive and has lessons learnt from the experience of the troops trained by the European Union in the fight in northern Mozambique. In other words, to adapt the training a little to the reality\u201d, Portugal\u2019s foreign minister told Lusa on the phone, speaking from Rwanda\u2019s capital Kigali, where he is on an official visit.<\/p>\n

Rwanda, stressed Joa\u0303o Gomes Cravinho, \u201cis a very important partner\u201d for Portugal, \u201ca country that pays a lot of attention to the African continent\u201d, and \u201ca key player\u201d in scenarios where Portuguese military personnel are involved, such as Mozambique and the Central African Republic (CAR).<\/p>\n

During his visit to Kigali, the head of Portuguese diplomacy met with his counterpart, Vincent Biruta, and the minister of defence, Juvenal Marizamunda, as well as with European Union authorities and Portuguese businesspeople.<\/p>\n

Since July 2021, Rwanda has had an autonomous military force deployed in Cabo Delgado to combat the terrorist groups that have been operating in northern Mozambique for the past six years, operating in conjunction with the Mozambican Armed Forces. The Southern African Development Community (SADC) countries have also joined these military operations through the SAMIM mission, which is due to leave by June.<\/p>\n

\u201cSAMIM has begun its withdrawal operations, and by June, it will have left the theatre, which leaves a certain vacuum; therefore, one of the topics of our conversation was precisely how to support Mozambique in preventing this vacuum from being taken advantage of by terrorist forces in Cabo Delgado,\u201d said Gomes Cravinho.<\/p>\n

Portugal took command of the EU Training Mission in Mozambique (EUTM-MOZ), which began in September 2022 and has a two-year mandate. The current mission consists of a contingent of 117 people, 65 of whom are Portuguese.<\/p>\n

During the meeting with the two Rwandan leaders, the minister discussed the situation in the CAR, where Portugal has around 250 military personnel involved in United Nations (MINUSCA) and EU missions.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe big issue is the presence on the ground of the Wagner forces, which in the meantime have changed their name (…), private forces, mercenaries, who are exploiting mines and therefore are also greatly degrading the little authority of the state of the Central African Republic,\u201d said the minister, referring to the Russian mercenaries formerly led by Yevgeny Prigozhin, who rebelled against the Russian President last year and died two months later, in August, in a plane crash.<\/p>\n

Portugal and Rwanda discussed \u201chow to circumvent and eventually eliminate the presence of mercenary forces so that the CAR can assume its own responsibilities\u201d, namely by supporting the training of the armed forces of the Central African Republic \u201cwithout allowing them to come under the command of precisely those mercenaries\u201d, he added.<\/p>\n

During the meetings, the conflicts in the Middle East and Ukraine were discussed, as well as the \u201cvarious crises plaguing the African continent\u201d, such as in the Great Lakes region, Sudan and the Sahel.<\/p>\n

Gomes Cravinho also pointed out the potential of bilateral relations in areas such as trade, higher education, energy and infrastructure and highlighted \u201cthe growth of economic presence\u201d with Portuguese companies operating in public works and construction.<\/p>\n

Efacec \u201cdid an important job of consolidating the electricity grid\u201d in Rwanda and Mota-Engil is building the new airport and also, together with Martifer, the BioNTech factory \u2013 which the minister visited on Monday \u2013 the first factory on the African continent capable of producing vaccines with messenger RNA (mRNA) technology and supported by the European Union (EU) with \u20ac1.2 billion.<\/p>\n

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