Mozambique: President highlights summit success, next one in Portugal

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Mozambique: President highlights summit success, next one in Portugal

12:34 CAT | 02 Sep 2022

Photo: Twitter / @antoniocostapm

The president of Mozambique, Filipe Nyusi, said on Thursday that the 5th Luso-Moçambican Summit, being held in Maputo, was being productive and announced that the next meeting between the two countries would be held in Lisbon.

At a joint press conference after meeting with Portugal’s prime minister on the occasion of the 5th Luso-Mozambican Summit, Nyusi made a positive assessment of the work done so far.

“Making a quick balance, I would say that it is being productive. The work still continues, we are having successes during the visit,” he said.

According to Nyusi, “there have been deep, open and honest debates”, and e have managed to consolidate cooperation between the two countries.

In his opening speech, after the signing of six bilateral agreements, Mozambique’s president announced that “the 6th bilateral summit will take place in Portugal”, but did not announce a date.

Nyusi thanked Portugal for its help “in difficult times”, such as the cyclones that regularly hit the country, the fight against terrorism and the Covid-19 pandemic, and pointed out that cooperation between the two countries “is thriving”.

He also mentioned that the prime minister would visit the Portuguese military on Friday that are training Mozambican forces as part of the European Union mission and left a request.

Abrimos novas portas para a #cooperação bilateral, para o aprofundamento da parceria estratégica entre ambos os países e para o reforço dos laços de forte amizade que unem moçambicanos e portugueses, como testemunham os cerca de 20 acordos que assinamos nestes dias. pic.twitter.com/vXSf54MyhI

— António Costa (@antoniocostapm) September 1, 2022

“Material support would be fundamental to fight the enemy, to support these young men that are well trained but need to give their contribution with some modern equipment,” he said, pointing out that terrorism is “an unpredictable issue […] without borders”.

He said that the European Union and Portugal were “giving Mozambicans a hook so that they can fish many times” and said that “at any time when there is terrorism,” the country would be in a position to face it.

On an economic level, Nyusi said the country would “continue to favour public-private partnerships” and added that the productive private sector “needs to be facilitated” and called for boosting investments by Portuguese companies in Mozambique.

“In this regard, I mentioned the package of motivational measures to speed up the economy in Mozambique, we think it is an opportunity for Portugal to explore because it facilitates the private sector, in the knowledge that it is the private sector that can boost our economies,” he said.

He pointed out that the Portuguese prime minister would visit FACIM (Maputo International Fair) this Friday, the second and final day of his official visit to Mozambique, and speak at the opening of the business forum “as a way of providing strength, support to the private and productive sector and enhance the role of the business community of the two countries.

A realização desta Cimeira, depois de um longo período marcado pela pandemia, tem um significado especial e permitiu elevar, ainda mais, o patamar das relações entre #Portugal e #Moçambique. pic.twitter.com/gTqvD6KED5

— António Costa (@antoniocostapm) September 1, 2022