Luanda - Angola and Egypt signed on Wednesday a bilateral agreement in the field of Defense, with a view to relaunching cooperation in this area.
The signatories of the agreement were the Angolan Minister of National Defense, Former Combatants and Veterans of the Fatherland, João Ernesto dos Santos “Liberdade”, who has been in Egypt since Monday, for a 72-hour working visit, and his counterpart Egyptian, General Abdel Majeed Sagr.
In Cairo, minister João Ernesto dos Santos' agenda reserved different moments, including visits to enterprises and military institutions.
The Angolan government official held a meeting with the Minister of State for Military Production, Mohamed Salah El-Din Mustafa, who gave him a presentation on military products, including weapons.
The agenda included visits to the factory for developed industries and the vehicle department of the engineering industries complex.
It was also completed with a visit to the monument of the late President Anwar Al-Sadat, the third Egyptian statesman who restored the multi-party system to the Arab country, murdered by fundamentalists in October 1991, a tribute to the Unknown Soldier, trips to the Command College and the General Staff, as well as the House of the Armed Forces Financial Affairs Authority.
The ministerial delegation includes the Angolan ambassador to Egypt, Nelson Manuel Cosme, the Secretary of State for Defense Industry, general Afonso Neto, the National Director of Defense Policy, lieutenant general Paulo Francisco, and the minister's diplomatic advisor of National Defense, Brigadier Silvestre Gustavo, in addition to the Defense Attaché in Cairo, Colonel José Pedro Mugimbo.
Minister João Ernesto dos Santos' visit ends on Thursday.ART/DOJ
