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Mozambique continues to inspire confidence in international community

11:56 CAT | 13 Oct 2016

Noticias / President Filipe Nyusi and ambassador of Portugal to Mozambique Maria Amélia Paiva

Mozambique continues to enjoy prestige and international sympathy, despite the economic crisis and political and military instability that the country is currently experiencing.

According to Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation Oldemiro Baloi, the recent agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) aimed at the resumption of economic relations is stimulating initiatives for the resumption of support to Mozambique.

Speaking yesterday in Maputo on the sidelines of the accreditation ceremony of seven ambassadors from countries from Africa, Europe and Asia, Baloi said that Mozambique continues to receive offers from governments and institutions around the world who want to join the efforts aimed at establishing peace in the country, a sign of concern for the stability necessary for investments.

Ambassadors of Argentina, Sudan, Germany, Italy, Turkey, Portugal and Qatar presented their credentials to the head of the Mozambican state, Filipe Nyusi, yesterday morning in a ceremony held in the capital.

At the end of the ceremony, the Minister of Foreign Affairs spoke to reporters about the balance of cooperation with each of the countries represented, highlighting the interest expressed by the new ambassador of Qatar Yousuf Al-Mahmoud in cooperating with Mozambique in developing its hydrocarbon potential, particularly natural gas exploration in the Rovuma basin.

Baloi said that Qatar was very successful vis-à-vis hydrocarbon exploration, with high levels of growth, whose experience Mozambique could use as a reference on how to use natural resources to promote rapid growth and development in the medium and long term.

Recently, Qatar Petroleum Company announced its intention to invest in natural gas exploration in Mozambique, through the acquisition, in possible partnership with Exxon Mobil, of offshore fields currently operated by the Italian company ENI, which plans to sell 50 percent of its stake in Area 4 of the Rovuma basin in northern Mozambique.

In addition to hydrocarbons, cooperation between the two countries includes agriculture, aviation and technology transfer.

Another country willing to cooperate with Mozambique in the area of hydrocarbons is Sudan, whose ambassador, Abdalla Salim, who also presented his credentials yesterday.

On the relations with Sudan, Minister Baloi said there were a number of initiatives under way in several sectors, with agriculture, oil and gas potential areas in which the new ambassador accepted the challenge laid down by President Nyusi.

Argentina, a Latin American country with enormous agricultural potential, also expressed its interest in cementing relations with Mozambique.

“Argentina has 40 million inhabitants but produces food for 600 million. So you can imagine the amount of agricultural production that it exports, and how much our country can benefit from cooperation with it,” Minister Baloi said.

Germany, presenting new ambassador Detley Wolter, is one of Mozambique’s cooperation partners in the economic, social and political fields. Minister Balói sees Germany as an influential country within the European Union, and economic relations tend to extend to the political level.

Minister Baloi spoke of Italy, whose new ambassador in Maputo is Marco Conticelli, as supporting Mozambique even before independence, recalling its involvement in the Rome peace agreement ending the 16-year civil war, and now in the ongoing negotiations aimed at ending the political conflict between the government and Renamo.

Zeynep Kiziltan of Turkey and Maria Amélia Paiva of Portugal also presented credentials yesterday.

Source: Noticias