Luanda - Angola and Tanzania signed four legal instruments Tuesday in Zanzibar to deepen exchanges between the two countries and strengthen bilateral cooperation, the Foreign Affairs Ministry said in a statement.
The instruments were signed during the 2nd Session of the Bilateral Joint Commission by the Angolan Foreign Affairs minister, Téte António, and his Tanzanian counterpart, January Yusuf Makamba, and the Tanzanian Health Minister, Ummy Mwalimu.
The memos cover Oil and Gas, Visa Exemption on Diplomatic, Service and Ordinary Passports, Health and the Verbal Process for the Second Session of Bilateral Joint Commission between the two countries.
The memo on the Oil and Gas field aims to encourage mutual cooperation and sharing knowledge and experience in the management and development of this industry.
It also aims to promote cooperation and collaboration in oil and gas exploration, strengthen the technical capacity of the national staff in this industry and exchange information, data and common business opportunities.
The memo on Visa Exemption for Diplomatic, Service and Ordinary Passports aims to ease visa requirements between citizens of the two countries who hold these passports, making it easier for them to travel.
The Health memo aims to strengthen cooperation and upgrade human resources, including specialized services.
It also aims to exchange expertise in organ and tissue transplantation, in terms of assisted reproductive technologies, create resilient and sustainable reproductive, maternal and infant mortality systems through best practices, and promote cooperation in research and innovation in public health.
The memo establishes the exchange of experiences and practices in the control of malaria vectors, the development of an exchange program in physiotherapy, occupational therapy, speech and language therapy and production of orthotics and prostheses.
The signing of these four instruments marks the turning of another page in bilateral relations between the two countries that dates back to the Angola national liberation struggle.
The meeting took place 35 years after the first one in Tanzania, where the two countries laid the foundation stone for the establishment of a mechanism for bilateral consultations at diplomatic level to promote and extend economic, social, scientific, technical and cultural cooperation and to set up a bilateral commission between the two countries. FMA/VIC/AMP
