Portugal: António Costa to meet Filipe Nyusi in Paris – Lusa

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Portugal: António Costa to meet Filipe Nyusi in Paris – Lusa

2:21 CAT | 15 May 2021

FILE - Illustrative photo. [File photo: Presidency of the Republic]

Portugal’s prime minister, António Costa, will meet in Paris with the president of Mozambique, Filipe Nyusi, and the president of Angola, João Lourenço, on Tuesday, on the sidelines of the meeting on the future of African economies.

As well as bilateral meetings with Lourenço and Nyusi, Costa will also meet with the president of Egypt, Abdul Fatah Khalil Al-Sisi, and the president of Tunisia, Kaïs Saïed.

The Portuguese prime minister will be in Paris on Tuesday to attend this summit organised by the French president, Emmanuel Mácron.

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This meeting, which will discuss African debt financing and the future of the private sector on the continent, will be physically attended by at least 15 African leaders.

On Monday evening, President Emmanuel Macron will host the African leaders at the Elysée Palace for dinner. The conference will take place on Tuesday afternoon at the Grand Palais Ephemere, built next to the Eiffel Tower, while the original Grand Palais is under construction.

Other European leaders such as Mario Draghi, Italian prime minister, or Pedro Sanchez, Spanish prime minister, will also attend in the French capital.

Emmanuel Macron also chose to meet with Nyusi and Lourenço bilaterally.

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On the bilateral agenda of the meeting between Macron and Filipe Nyusi is the situation in Cabo Delgado and coordination plans between neighbouring countries to tackle terrorism in that region, as well as the various offers of aid from Portugal, the United States and France, according to a source from the Élysée.

Source: Lusa