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Mozambique | Nyusi wraps up visit to France: Mission accomplished, a lot will happen – Noticias
12:05 CAT | 19 May 2021
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President Nyusi left Paris for Mozambique on Tuesday evening, bearing promises of collaboration in the fight against terrorism, and of aid in the area of finance and even in the fight against Covid-19.
At a press conference late yesterday afternoon, Filipe Nyusi said he felt the purposes of his trip to Paris had been “fulfilled”.
“We came to participate in the summit (on African economies) and to carry out a bilateral visit,” he said, judging the summit “timely and successful”.
At the bilateral level, the Mozambican head of state had a long conversation with his French counterpart, Emmanuel Macron.
During his stay in Paris, Nyusi also met with the presidents of South Africa, Cyril Ramaphosa, and of Rwanda, Paul Kagame, and the prime ministers of Ethiopia, Abiy Ahmed Ali, and of Portugal, António Costa.
The common denominators of these meetings, the head of state said, were the summit, the terrorism situation in Cabo Delgado and Covid-19.
“We reaffirm our openness to support in combating terrorism, through strengthening the training of our Defence and Security Forces,” the president said.
In the economic and financial area, according to Nyusi, Portugal is considering debt suspension.
Still within the framework of what the president called “economic diplomacy”, the head of state had a meeting with Total’s CEO, from whom he received assurances that the French oil company remains committed to its natural gas project in Afungi, Cabo Delgado province.
“It was nice to hear from Total that they are with Mozambique. They expressed solidarity and showed a certain admiration for the efforts that the country is making” to restore security in Cabo Delgado, President Nyusi said.
Other French companies with interests in Mozambique also reaffirmed their intention to continue investing in the country. Air France, which suspended its flights to Maputo decades ago, reiterated its intention to resume flights to the country. Only constraints imposed by Covid-19 were delaying implementation, the airline had said, promising to move forward in October.
“Although I don’t like to speak before things happen, (I would say that) the mission is accomplished. A lot will happen,” the president concluded.
Source: Noticias
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