Luanda - Angola will soon host the Executive Secretariat of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Community of Portuguese Speaking Countries (CPLP), the secretary Manuel Augusto announced on Thursday in Luanda.
The secretary for International Relations of the MPLA Politburo announced so to the press at the end of a meeting with Brazilian MPs, as part of the State visit by President Lula da Silva to Angola on 24-27 August.
“For this reason, our delegation was also made up of the leadership of the MPLA Parliamentary Group, who had the opportunity to discuss, with their Brazilian counterparts, practical ways to move from speech to action in parliamentary cooperation”, he said.
According to him, Brazilian and Angolan parliamentarians reviewed the political, economic and social situation in each of the countries, as well as ways of strengthening relations between the MPLA Parliamentary Group and the deputies of the Brazilian Congress.
In this regard, he said that there was a very fruitful exchange of views that served to establish some programmes to be implemented as soon as possible.
The official said the importance of this work meeting transcends relations between Angola and Brazil, as both countries are members of the CPLP which, in the coming days, will hold its summit of Heads of State and Government in São Tomé and Príncipe.
The leader of the MPLA Parliamentary Group, Virgílio de Fontes Pereira, participated in the meeting, held at the headquarters of the party that governs Angola.
On the occasion, the president of the Brazil-Angola Parliamentary Friendship Group, Márcio Marinho, expressed his intention to restart a new story in the relationship between the two countries, involving the democratically elected governments.
Therefore, he considered the aforementioned meeting positive for its approach to important topics, with emphasis on food security, science and technology, family farming, health, sickle cell anemia, milk bank, infrastructure, among others.
The Republican Federal MP guaranteed that all matters to be approved and forwarded to the Brazilian parliament, within the framework of cooperation with Angola, will deserve special attention.
“Angola can rely on the Brazilian Parliament. We will be supporting, stamping with all energy and security all kinds of agreements between the executives of Angola and Brazil, aimed to strengthen this bilateral relationship”, concluded the president of the Angola and Brazil Parliamentary Friendship Group . OHA/AL /NIC
