Joint Tanzania-Mozambique commission restart meetings – The Guardian Tanzania

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Joint Tanzania-Mozambique commission restart meetings – The Guardian Tanzania

11:20 CAT | 29 Sep 2022

A view of Maputo city. [File photo: Lusa]

Tanzania and Mozambique have agreed to cooperate on 15 issues stressed during President Samia Suluhu Hassan’s visit to the neighbouring country.

Mabrouk Nassor Mabrouk, Tanzania’s Foreign Affairs and East African Cooperation deputy minister, told a virtual press briefing that defence and security was critical, along with communications, border verification, farming and mining. Natural resources and student exchange were also matters of reciprocity between the two sides, he said.

The Joint Permanent Commission will be holding regular meetings on border security, while exchanging experience in the oil and gas sector, and other fields, boosting ties between the two countries.

For a long time the commission has not been meeting but it held a three day meeting in Dar es Salaam last week, he stated.

“Tanzania and Mozambique have brotherly relations,” he said, affirming that trade statistics show that efforts are needed to boost ties to enhance potential benefits to the two countries.

Ricardo Mtumbuida, the Mozambican High Commissioner to Tanzania, said the targeted areas during President Samia’s recent visit are chiefly the economy, security coordination and social issues.

During the president’s visit the hosts remembered the Zanzibar Revolution in which Mozambique participated, but later their ties began to cool off, he said, noting that with the coming of the Tanzanian President, “a new push has been made and all doors are now being opened.”

The main challenge facing Mozambique is terrorism and that terrorists who cause great havoc to the country “pass through Tanzania, hence cooperation is needed, and already the two countries have decided to jointly fight the menace.”

On Wednesday September 21, President Samia and Mozambican leader Felipe Nyusi agreed to team up in combating terror threats in border areas, the key issue in the three day state visit.

The two leaders reviewed the political, economic and social situation in their two nations, exchanging views on issues of common interest within Southern Africa, Africa and the world.

They also witnessed the signing of bilateral accords on security and defence on one part and a specific accord on search and rescue operations. Tanzanian teachers will also give courses on the Swahili language in Mozambique, to make the language more commonplace in education and eventually in other institutions.

There are various sections of Mozambican people who wish they were able to speak the language. This accord will also facilitate the exchange of university students, and also propel investments in the gas and mining sectors, observers noted.

Source: The Guardian Tanzania