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Former Spain’s Prime Minister Zapatero to attend MOZEFO 2017, receives chairman of Soico in Madrid
11:35 CAT | 11 Sep 2017
O País / Daniel David and Luis Zapatero in Madrd, Spain, last week
The former Spanish prime minister José Luis Zapatero met Daniel David, chairman of the board of directors of Grupo Soico, in Madrid last week to lay the groundwork for his participation in the Forum MOZEFO 2017.
At the meeting, which lasted more than an hour, David thanked José Luis Zapatero for having accepted the invitation to participate in the forum’s second edition, and gave a broad presentation of the forum, its goals, and the initiatives carried out since its launch.
At the end of the meeting, David praised the sympathy and cordiality with which he had been received and said he shared the enormous excitement that Zapatero had about coming to Maputo to participate in the forum.
This will be Zapatero’s first visit to Mozambique, and he hopes that his participation in the forum will contribute positively to the debate on knowledge and its importance to the process of economic growth and sustainable social development.
At the same time, preparatory meetings were being held in Madrid between the MOZEFO team and representatives of the various international speakers, ironing out the details of their participation in the 22-24 November Maputo event, themed “Knowledge, Motivation, Action: Accelerating the Road to Sustainable Development”.
Meetings tackled logistical details and speakers’ participation schedules, and defined the themes to be addressed by the various panels.
The MOZEFO 2017 forum will gather together a prestigious group of international speakers, including former president of Mexico, Vicente Fox, and of Costa Rica Laura Chinchilla; José Maria Neves, former prime minister of Cape Verde; Rama Sithanen, former deputy prime minister and finance minister of Mauritius; and Paulo Portas, former deputy prime minister of Portugal.
The debates will also see the participation of other national and international reference speakers with governance, business and academia experience, ensuring a weighty and constructive debate about development.
- José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, born 4 August 1960) is a Spanish politician and member of the Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party (PSOE). He was elected for two terms as Prime Minister of Spain, in the 2004 and 2008 general elections. On 2 April 2011 he announced he would not stand for re-election in the 2011 general election. He left office on 21 December 2011.
Source: O País / Wikipedia
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