MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS
PRESS RELEASE
The Republic of Angola and the United Republic of Tanzania signed this Thursday morning, February 16th, in Addis-Ababa, two legal instruments that mark the relaunch of bilateral cooperation between the two States.
These are the Memorandum of Understanding on the creation of a Bilateral Commission between the Government of the Republic of Angola and the Government of the United Republic of Tanzania, and the Memorandum of Understanding on Cooperation between the Diplomatic Academy “Venâncio de Moura” of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Angola and the Mozambique-Tanzania Foreign Affairs Center of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and East African Cooperation of the United Republic of Tanzania.
Were co-signatories His Excellency Ambassador Téte António, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Angola and His Excellency Stergomena Lawrence Tax, Minister of Foreign Affairs and East African Cooperation of the United Republic of Tanzania.
The first agreement aims to establish a bilateral consultation mechanism at diplomatic level in order to promote and expand economic, social, scientific, technical and cultural cooperation and to establish a
Bilateral Commission between the two countries.
The second, maintain an active exchange of information about their respective study programmes, courses, seminars and other relevant academic activities, particularly those referring to innovative practices that meet current capacity building demands.
These two legal instruments were signed on the sidelines of the 42nd Ordinary Session of the Executive Council of the African Union which has been taking place since yesterday, Wednesday, in the Ethiopian capital.
The signing of these two agreements marks the turning of another page in the bilateral relations between the two countries, thus doing justice to the history that dates back to the struggle for national liberation.
- OFFICE OF INSTITUTIONAL COMMUNICATION AND PRESS OF THE MINISTRY OF FOREIGN RELATIONS (GCII-MIREX*), in Luanda, on February 16, 2023.-