Luanda - The National Assembly Speaker (parliament), Carolina Cerqueira, received in audience, this Thursday, the Mozambican MP Jerónima Agostinho, who is participating in the 55th Plenary Assembly of the region’s Parliamentary Forum (SADC-PF), in Luanda, with whom she addressed closer cooperation between both countries' legislative bodies.
Speaking to the press, Jerónima Agostinho said she had conveyed greetings from the Speaker of the Assembly of the Republic of Mozambique, Esperança Bias, who was not present at the meeting due to an overlapping agenda.
The 55th Plenary Assembly of the SADC- FP takes place under the motto "The role of parliaments in promoting renewable energy policies in the SADC Region and creating a single regional energy market".
The Mozambican MP, who chairs the National Monitoring Group for SADC for the Parliament of Mozambique, considered the cooperation between the two legislative bodies "healthy and excellent".
She was optimistic about the transformation of the SADC Parliamentary Forum into a Regional Parliament during this year.
"It's a process that has been going on for many years, but we are very close to achieving this objective", she highlighted.
Relations between the two countries were marked by the signing of the General Agreement on Economic, Scientific, Technical and Cultural Cooperation, on September 5, 1978, and by the creation of the Bilateral Cooperation Commission on the same date.
Angola and Mozambique have historical ties of brotherhood, friendship, fraternity and solidarity, forged in the fight against Portuguese colonialism, which culminated in the independence of Mozambique on June 25, 1975 and of Angola on November 11 of the same year.
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