Luanda - The United States will continue to focus on its strategic partnership with Angola in several sectors, with reciprocal advantages, said on Thursday in Luanda the chairman of the Executive Board of the United States Financial Corporation for International Development, Scott Nathan.
Speaking to the press at the end of an audience with the Head of State, João Lourenço, the special envoy of the US President said that the partnership with Angola aimed to ensure the development and prosperity of both states, and beyond.
On behalf of President Joe Biden and the American government, he said, his delegation seizes the opportunity to congratulate the Angolan leader for having been elected for another five-year presidential term.
Scott Nathan said so to the press after attending the swearing-in ceremony of President João Lourenço and the Vice President of the Republic, Esperança Costa, held in the Republic Square, in Luanda City.
Scott Nathan led the American delegation at the inauguration of the Angolan President, which includes the US ambassador to Angola, Tulinabo Mushingi, and the assistant of the official in charge of the US Military Command for Africa, Andrew Robert Young.
Regarding the inauguration speech of the Angolan Head of State, the US representative highlighted, among other things, aspects related to governance, transparency, reforms, the fight against corruption, regional security and economic prosperity.
In the same day, the Angolan Head of State met with his counterpart from Portugal, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, and received in audience the vice-chair of the Japan-African Union Friendship Parliamentary Group, Sakurada Yoshitaka, and the Algerian parliament speaker, Ibrahim Boughali.
