Mozambique – Portugal Summit scheduled for 8, 9 December

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Mozambique – Portugal Summit scheduled for 8, 9 December

10:24 CAT | 04 Jul 2025

The head of te Portuguese Executive, Prime Minister Luís Montenegro was speaking after receiving in São Bento the President of Mozambique, Daniel Chapo, who had previously held a meeting with the Portuguese head of state, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, at the Belém Palace. [Photo: Lusa]

The Portuguese Prime Minister announced yesterday that the next Mozambique-Portugal Summit will take place on the 8th and 9th of December in Portugal, arguing that the two countries have leaders at the beginning of a government cycle with the capacity to inject new energy into cooperation.

The head of te Portuguese Executive Luís Montenegro was speaking after receiving in São Bento the President of Mozambique, Daniel Chapo, who had previously held a meeting with the Portuguese head of state, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, at the Belém Palace.

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In his brief speech after the bilateral meeting, Prime Minister Montenegro stated that Portugal’s priority was to establish “an inclusive political dialogue with the President of Mozambique, with a view to strengthening ties of political, institutional, cultural and economic cooperation”.

“We are in the first phase of the political cycle, which began with the election of President Daniel Chapo, and we are also in the first phase of the political cycle that began with the re-election of the current Portuguese government. Therefore, we are both in a position to lend new energy to the relationship between governments, between countries and between the peoples of Portugal and Mozambique,” Montenegro said.

In this context, the head of the Portuguese government announced that, during the conversation with Daniel Chapo, it was decided to hold a sixth summit between Portugal and Mozambique.

“We had the opportunity to schedule it, indicatively, for the next 8th and 9th of December. There is no better expression of this desire to give this new impetus to our relations than to resume holding these bilateral summits,” he added.

At the summit, which will be held in Portugal, the two countries will seek to “develop cooperation instruments in areas such as Health, Education, Mobility, Security and Defence,” he said. From an economic point of view, he promised that the Portuguese government “will do everything to create the appropriate instruments to develop more trade and also more investments”.

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“We have around 400 Portuguese companies in Mozambique and our hope is that they can have an even greater volume of business and that a few more can also join them,” he said.

In this same context, Montenegro then referred to the political crisis that began after the Mozambican presidential elections, and delivered the message that the reforms in Mozambique are “a pillar” for developing bilateral economic cooperation.

“We have been following, with a positive spirit and hope for the results, the entire process of political stability and the implementation of reforms and transformations in Mozambique, which are a pillar for us to undertake this strengthening of economic cooperation and business investment. This is what could boost not only the continuation of many of the sectors of activity that have marked this presence, but also allow us to open up new sectors and new opportunities,” he stressed.

With Daniel Chapo at his side, he also delivered a message about Portugal’s cooperation and solidarity with regard to Mozambique’s fight against terrorism in the Cabo Delgado region.

“Portugal remains strongly committed to supporting the Mozambican State politically and financially to reduce instability and the increase in terrorist practices. We are following the efforts to overcome the situation in Cabo Delgado, both directly and bilaterally, and at the level of the European Union, where we have, moreover, been insistent in defending the continuity of the respective financial support,” Prime Minister Montenegro added.

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