Luanda - Angola and Sao Tome and Prince signed Monday, in Principe City, five legal instruments in the fields of defence, agriculture and fisheries, oil and gas, as well as for the promotion and reciprocal protection of investments and a verbal process.
Angola’s minister of Foreign Affairs, Téte António, and São Tome and Prince’s minister of Foreign Affairs, Cooperation and Communities, Edite da Costa Ten Jua, signed three legal instruments.
In the defence field, the agreement was signed by the Angolan minister João Ernesto dos Santos and his São Tomé and Príncipe couterpart, Jorge Amado.
The Chairman of the Board of Directors of the National Oil and Gas Agency (ANPG), Paulino Jerónimo, and the director of ANP-STP, Luis Manuel da Silva, signed the Cooperation Protocol in the oil sector.
The signing of the referred legal instruments was the culmination of the Eighth Session of the Bilateral Commission between Angola and São Tomé and Príncipe.
During the two-day work the delegations of both countries reaffirmed the importance of deepening the excellent relations of friendship and cooperation existing between the two countries.
The heads of the two delegations were pleased with the historic relations of friendship, brotherhood and cooperation existing between the two countries and peoples.
The two countries expressed wilingness to move relations to a level more in line with the ambitions based on the foundations that underpin a diversified strategic partnership, with emphasis on mutually beneficial economic cooperation.
The relations of friendship and cooperation between the two states are based on political, historical, cultural and geographical factors, formalized in 1978, through the General Cooperation Agreement and the Bilateral Joint Commission created in 1980.
