Mozambique: Italy-Africa Summit opened "a green light of opportunities"
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Mozambique and Malawi will hold a meeting of their bilateral Joint Defence and Security Commission in Maputo later this year, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation Verónica Macamo announced on Friday, without specifying the exact date.
Verónica Macamo was speaking moments after talks between President Filipe Nyusi and Malawi head of state Lazarus Chakwera, whose state visit to Mozambique ended on Sunday.
During the meeting, the two statesmen announced the holding of the 14th session of the Permanent Joint Commission on Defence and Security between Mozambique and Malawi, “to take place in Maputo later this year, on dates yet to be announced”.
Malawi is participating in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) mission supporting Mozambican troops in Cabo Delgado, a province terrorised since 2017 by armed rebels, with some attacks claimed by the Islamic State extremist group.
The conflict has so far left 784,000 internally displaced, according to the International Organisation for Migration (IOM), and killed around 4,000, according to the ACLED conflict registry project.
Minister Macamo said the two presidents had agreed to “continue to work together” to “search for solutions to security issues, armed conflicts, terrorism, peace and violent extremism”, matters they consider to be “of mutual interest”.
“We are working towards doing everything possible so that our two countries can develop, always aiming at benefitting our communities,” the minister said.
Chakwera’s visit to Mozambique included the opening of a business forum between the two countries on Saturday, an event during which two cooperation documents were signed between Mozambique’s Agency for the Promotion of Investment and Exports (APIEX), the Mozambique Grain Institute (ICM), and their counterparts in Malawi.
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