Praia – The Cape Verdean government has welcomed Angolan private investment in the scope of the new era of mutual cooperation, stated in Praia city the ambassador of Cape Verde to Angola, Jorge Eduardo de Figueiredo.
Talking to Angolan journalists at the end of the 8th meeting of the Angola/Cape Verde Joint Commission, the diplomat advanced that his country looks at the reinforcement of the cooperation as one of the ways to boost the economy of both countries.
José Eduardo de Figueiredo advanced that his country looks with great interest to the air and maritime transport markets to boost the internal tourism and both countries’ economy, taking advantage of Angola´s tourism potential.
The diplomat manifested full opening of Cape Verde for the Angolan private investment as well as to become a springboard to project Angolan goods in the international market.
O hisn turn, the Angolan ambassador to Cape Verde, Júlia Machado, said that the archipelago has a diversified market and with many potentialities for both countries to take advantage of.
Júlia Machado appealed to the businesspersons from the two countries to be bolder and take good advantage of this opening to turn riches into real factors.
The diplomat advances that this is the moment for businesspersons to give wings to their imagination and launch themselves in the two markets, taking into account the facilities provided by the governments of both states to leverage the economies and also increase the ties of cooperation.
Cooperation strengthening
The Angolan diplomat also added that Cape Verdean investment would be very welcome from the Angolan side, as the country is looking for private investment, within the framework of the diversification of the national economy.
The ambassador considers that the time has come for Angolans and Cape Verdeans to take advantage of the new page in bilateral relations.
“The turning of the page in relations between Angola and Cape Verde is the manifestation and determination of both countries to strengthen bilateral relations in the various domains, with a greater focus on promoting Angolan private investment in Cape Verde, promotion and reciprocal protection of investments, in the areas of transport”, points out the official.
Júlia Machado also defends that the entrepreneurs should take advantage of such opening, to occupy the spaces created for the expansion of investment areas.
Angola and Cape Verde began Saturday (12) to outline new lines of cooperation, within the framework of the new dynamics of economic partnerships at a global level.
For this purpose, members of the Joint Commission of the two countries, meeting in the 8th session, reviewed aspects related to the exchange of services, maritime and air transport, among other areas of cooperation.
During the meeting, in which the Angolan delegation was headed by the minister of Foreign Affairs, Téte António, four legal instruments were evaluated, namely “Agreement for the Promotion and Reciprocal Protection of Investment”, “Bilateral Agreement on Air Services”, “Air transport Memorandum of understanding” and the “Memorandum of Technical Cooperation between the National Civil Aviation Authority of the Republic of Angola (ANAC) and the Civil Aviation Agency of Cape Verde”.
Angola and Cape Verde have strong ties of cooperation and, among the agreements signed, those on visa exemption and in the fields of education, defence, oil, diplomacy, agriculture, transport, finance and administration stand out.
The formalization of political-diplomatic relations between Angola and Cape Verde took place on 30 August 1977.
Source: Angola Press News Agency