Nyusi Meets With Belgian Businesses

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Nyusi Meets With Belgian Businesses

9:25 CAT | 26 Apr 2016

Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi declared on Thursday that he would like to see Belgium figure on the list of the major foreign investors in Mozambique, taking advantage of the opportunities the country offers.

Speaking in Brussels at a meeting of the Belgium-Luxemburg Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Agriculture, with the countries of the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) group, Nyusi invited Belgian businesses to invest in Mozambique, saying that there can be no sustainable development without the participation of private business.

He stressed the need to strengthen bilateral cooperation at all levels, but particularly in economic and business aspects.

To date, cooperation between Mozambique and Belgium has covered such areas as health, education, food security, transport and communications and rural electrification. This, Nyusi said, showed that relations between the two governments were “at a very high level”.

He hoped that economic relations could be increased through a greater intervention by Belgian businesses in Mozambican development.

Governments, he added, have the responsibility to create macro-economic and legislative frameworks that are favourable to private sector business, In Mozambique, the government was working with the business class to identify and eliminate barriers and thus attract increasing volumes of national and foreign investment.

At the meeting, the chairperson of the Belgium-Luxemburg Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Agriculture, Guy Bultynck, announced that a Belgian business mission will visit Mozambique in November to explore business opportunities.

Source: AIM