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2:05 CAT | 26 Jul 2024
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The Mozambican government is assessing a proposal to expand the number of countries exempted from entry visas for tourism and business purposes in the Mozambican market.
The proposal was recently made by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, and a technical committee was created that includes several state institutions, notably the Ministries of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, Industry and Commerce, within the framework of the Economic Acceleration Package (PAE) coordinated by the Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF).
The parties have met and discussed aspects of the impact of the measure on the tourism, migration and investment sectors, along with ways of unilaterally extending the exemption measure plus a cost-benefit analysis and potential improvements to the initiative.
João Macaringue, from the PAE, the entity responsible for coordination, told ‘Notícias’ that, in order to gather more information on the proposal presented, there was consultation with all the institutions involved in the process.
The last meeting was chaired by the Deputy Minister of Culture and Tourism, Fredson Bacar, and was attended by Deputy Minister of Economy and Finance, Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, as well as the Investment and Export Promotion Agency (APIEX), the National Migration Service (SENAMI) and the National Institute of Tourism (INATUR), among others.
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The participants agreed that it was necessary to involve all segments, such as tourism, economics, migration and investment, which will in turn hold technical discussions on the topic.
The proposal falls within measure 13 of the PAE, and aims to improve the business environment and increase the country’s competitiveness in attracting Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) as well as leisure and business tourism.
Under the PAE, visa exemptions are currently in force for 29 countries: Canada, Switzerland, United Arab Emirates, Israel, United States of America, Russian Federation, Japan, Saudi Arabia, Belgium, Denmark, Spain, Norway, Sweden, Netherlands, United Kingdom and Northern Ireland, South Korea, Ivory Coast, Finland, Indonesia, Singapore, Ghana, Senegal, Germany, France, Italy, People’s Republic of China, Portugal and Ukraine.
Source: Notícias
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