Luanda - The results achieved by the Angolan State in the past year allow the country to face 2025 with confidence and determination, President João Lourenço said on Friday in Luanda.
Speaking at the New Year's greetings ceremony to the Diplomatic Corps, President João Lourenço said that, for this reason, Angola continues to work towards the recommended goals.
'We have the firm ambition to put Angola on the path of development, cooperating with countries and international institutions and, for this reason, we have held meetings at the most varied levels,' he said.
In these meetings, he explained, the country seeks to address cooperation strategies and programs and, at the same time, raise awareness among entrepreneurs to finance the Angolan market.
He considered that the national territory has an enormous potential of resources and conditions of various kinds to carry out mutually advantageous business.
The President added that the improvement in the business environment is increasingly growing, taking into account the number of foreign investors.
On the occasion, he praised those (foreign investors) who have applied their financial, technical, technological and other resources, with the aim of capitalizing them, thus creating important assets in the Angolan economy.
According to the President of the Republic, the results of these initiatives take some time to produce their impact on people's daily lives, but the path is the right one.
He argued that the benefits of the existing exchange between Angola and international partners will begin to be felt gradually and safely.
Lobito Corridor
On the other hand, the Head of State stressed that Angola represents a good destination to absorb financial flows and others that allow the development of infrastructures such as the Lobito Corridor.
It underlines that this infrastructure will have an impressionable strategic role in the flow of goods and commodities essential for cutting-edge technologies and for the energy transition, across the Atlantic Ocean, to global markets.
'The Lobito Corridor will be much more than a way to transport raw materials and various products, but a relevant development pole for regional integration and for the dynamization of the African Continental Free Trade Area,' he stressed.
He pointed out that, in this infrastructure, important industries, large-scale agro-industrial projects and various services will be installed, identified by international partners such as the European Union and the USA.
President João Lourenco recalled that the visit to Angola, with a trip to Lobito (Benguela), by former US President Joe Biden, last December, confirms the greatness of the undertaking. VIC/SC/DOJ
