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8:25 CAT | 11 Jan 2024
Photo: Presidente Filipe Nyusi/Facebook
The president of Mozambique, Filipe Nyusi, has highlighted a commitment to “quality production” to ensure a competitive country, on the first day of a working visit to India.
“What we’ve been saying now is: we have to produce in quantity, but also invest in quality so that we can compete,” Nyusi told journalists on the sidelines of the inaugural ceremony of the 10th Gujarat Global Summit, as part of his visit to India.
The four-day trip is the result of an invitation from India’s prime minister, Narendra Modi, with whom Nyusi first attended the inaugural ceremony of the summit and then had a bilateral meeting.
At the opening ceremony, the president of East Timor, José Ramos Horta, was also among the guests of honour and visited the Mozambique pavilion.
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“I congratulate Mozambique on its progress, which I didn’t know about,” José Ramos Horta told journalists. “Mozambique is known for its cashews and prawns, which did not use to be well processed. The progress that Mozambique has made in the last ten years is fascinating, it is fabulous.”
Nyusi’s visit to India is part of efforts to strengthen relations of friendship and cooperation between the two countries, as well as to promote investment opportunities in Mozambique, according to his office.
His trip comes at a time when a court dispute between two companies over the liberalisation of exports of pigeon pea to India had led to dozens of tonnes of the product being blocked at Mozambique’s ports.
At the end of December, the African country’s Confederation of Economic Associations (CTA) explained that the impounded pigeon pea was then already being exported to India, reiterating that “free access to the market” is the best option to avoid similar problems.
The export of pigeon peas to India, which is the main market for the product, is the result of a memorandum of understanding between the two countries, signed in 2016, providing for exemption from customs duties for India-based importers.
India is the largest producer and consumer of pigeon peas, with the Indian press reporting a 10% rise in the price of the product in the country in two months, precisely because of the difficulties in importing from Mozambique.
Na minha intervenção de hoje 10 de Janeiro na Cimeira de Gujarat, reiterei o convite a mulheres e homens de negócios indianos e de outras partes do mundo para investirem em Moçambique numa base de ganhos mútuos. pic.twitter.com/UEDPD47bKs
— Presidente Filipe Nyusi (@filipe_nyusi) January 10, 2024
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— Presidente Filipe Nyusi (@filipe_nyusi) January 10, 2024
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