2023-10-28 08:44:00
News from Angola – Angola and Djibouti expressed their desire to share experiences in the field of port management and encourage the exchange of multiple actions at the level of the private business sector of the two countries.
According to the statement that Angola news had access to today, the common position was expressed during the meeting that the Ambassador, Miguel César Domingos Bembe, recently accredited to the Republic of Djibouti, held with the Director of the Department of Bilateral Relations of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of that country in the Horn of Africa sub-region, Mahdi Absich Bouh.
According to the document, Mahdi Bouh made it known that his country, benefiting from its strategic location, has 8 specialized ports, constituting an important refueling and transshipment center, and serves as the main maritime access route to neighboring countries.
The note highlights that more than 10 percent of all world trade passes along the coast of Djibouti, which is located on one of the busiest trade routes in the world – the crossing between the African continent and the Arabian peninsula, covering access to the Sea Red and the Indian Ocean.
To this end, both diplomats analyzed the state of bilateral relations, highlighting five axes of cooperation, namely Political-Diplomatic, Defense and Security, including the fight against terrorism, Industry, Commerce and Logistics, Transport and Infrastructures, and Energy.
In the political-diplomatic domain, they envisaged the negotiation and signing of the Memorandum of Understanding for the Establishment of Political Consultation Mechanisms between the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Angola and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of the Republic of Djibouti, and the Agreement on Visa Exemption on Diplomatic and Service Passports.
In relation to the energy sector, Mahdi Absich Bouh expressed his country’s interest in cooperating with Angola, in order to benefit from its experience as an oil producer and exporter.
At the multilateral level, the two interlocutors argued that the African Continental Free Trade Area (ACFTA) should relaunch inter-African cooperation and trade
In this sense, it is recalled that diplomat Miguel Bembe presented the Letters of Credentials to President Ismael Omar Guelleh, of Djibouti, at the beginning of this week, marking the beginning of his functions as Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of the Republic of Angola in that East African country, with non-resident status.
Still in that period, diplomat Miguel Bembe, who resides in Ethiopia, where he has held, since the end of April this year, the position of Ambassador of Angola and Permanent Representative to the African Union and the United Nations Economic Community for Africa, participated in the 13th Meeting of the Steering Committee of the Forum of Inspectors General of African States and Similar Institutions (FIGE).
At the event in which Angola was represented by the Inspector General of State Administration, Ângelo de Barros Veiga Tavares, who is also Vice-President of the FIGE Steering Committee, it was decided that the country should host the organization’s ninth General Assembly in 2024.
Headquartered in Djibouti, FIGE has 20 Member States, with three countries in the process of joining.
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