President Chapo highlights Mozambique’s excellent relations with Portugal

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President Chapo highlights Mozambique’s excellent relations with Portugal

10:37 CAT | 04 Jul 2025

Photo: Lusa

President Daniel Chapo highlighted in Lisbon yesterday the excellence of relations between Mozambique and Portugal, highlighting Portugal’s “continuous support in the training of Mozambican cadres” as “an unequivocal sign of this excellent bilateral cooperation”.

Daniel Chapo, who paid an official visit to Portugal on Thursday, was speaking at the end of a meeting with the Portuguese prime minister, Luís Montenegro, which lasted over an hour.

“We exchanged views on matters of common interest and also assessed the current stage of bilateral cooperation between Portugal and Mozambique and concluded that we are experiencing an excellent moment in our cooperation, embodied by, among other reasons, the implementation of projects agreed upon under the 2022-26 Strategic Cooperation Programme,” President Chapo stated.

“Therefore, Portugal’s continued support in training Mozambican personnel here in Portugal, in the area of defence and academic training in general, is for us an unequivocal sign of this excellent cooperation between the two countries,” he added.

Daniel Chapo began his speech by offering “heartfelt condolences to the Portuguese people and especially to football lovers for the death” of footballer Diogo Jota and his brother André Silva, who were killed in a road accident in Spain yesterday.

The Mozambican president highlighted that this was his first official visit to Portugal since his election in October 2024, and that its “main objective is to increasingly strengthen” relations of friendship and cooperation.

In this sense, President Capo invited Prime Minister Montenegro to make an official visit to Mozambique on a date to be defined through diplomatic channels.

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Daniel Chapo added that it was a “happy coincidence” that Luís Montenegro was also starting a new term of office, considering it “urgent to capitalize on this very important fact”.

President Chapo stressed “Portugal’s firm position in supporting Mozambique in the fight against terrorism in Cabo Delgado, in the bilateral agreement in the area of defence and security, but also through the European Union, which supports Rwanda, which is on the ground, fighting against terrorism”.

“This is an unequivocal sign of the excellent relations of friendship and cooperation that exist between our two countries,” he reiterated.

He also highlighted Portugal’s humanitarian support for the displaced populations in the province of Cabo Delgado, in the north of the country, “victims of terrorism and also of natural disasters”.

“As everyone knows, Mozambique suffers cyclically from cyclones, floods and inundations which destroy public and private property, including homes and our populations, but Portugal is always with us,” he stressed.

Referring to the 6th Mozambique-Portugal Summit, to be held on 8 and 9 December in Portugal, Daniel Chapo said that it would be an opportunity to “not only take stock of the work (…), but also to plan for the future with a focus on consolidating cooperation, especially in the economic sphere”.

“You know very well that Portugal is a strategic partner for the development of Mozambique, we are all focused on economic and commercial cooperation and we want to increasingly increase economic and trade relations between the two countries and this Summit will, without a doubt, consolidate this economic aspect,” he stressed.

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Daniel Chapo said that he had informed Luís Montenegro of the political, economic and social situation in Mozambique, which he stressed was “stabilised” after the instability marked by “violent demonstrations [that destroyed public and private property]” and that an “inclusive national dialogue” was underway with the opposition parties and the candidates running for office.

Concluding his speech, Daniel Chapo welcomed the possibility raised by Luís Montenegro of creating lines of credit which he considered to be “an important gain for (…) both countries, for (…) businesspeople, the private sector, including for [both] peoples”.

Source: Lusa