Angola and Uganda to boost political and financial cooperation

 Luanda -Angola and Uganda plan to boost cooperation in political and diplomatic, financial, banking, education, health and oil sectors, the Angolan Foreign minister, Téte António, said Monday in Luanda.

The areas of technical, professional and scientific training and energy are also included in the plans to boost cooperation, with aim to develop economies of both countries, the Angolan minister said at the end of a meeting with a delegation from Uganda headed by the Ugandan minister of State and Foreign Affairs, Henry Oryem Okello.

Téte António added that strengthening cooperation relations is important, taking into account the enormous potential and opportunities that exist.

"We should increasingly work on the implementation of commitments already made for the deepening of our relations, through the development of concrete projects", said the Angolan minister, to whom conditions need to be created for the first meeting of the Angola-Uganda Bilateral Commission. 

The Angolan minister said the initiative will make it possible to identify new areas and establish the targets to be achieved, within the scope of this cooperation that is intended to be more dynamic and with reciprocal advantages.

Téte António recalled that recently on April 14, 2023, he received the letters from the resident ambassador of Uganda, in a clear demonstration of the willingness of this Executive to strengthen and boost the relations of friendship and cooperation with Angola.

The Ugandan minister of State and Foreign Affairs, Henry Oryem Okello, on his turn, highlighted the role of Angola and his country in the pacification of the Great Lakes region. 

Okello considered it important to strengthen the cooperation of economic diplomacy to attract investments to his country. 

On February 12, 2014, in the city of Kampala, Angola and Uganda signed four legal instruments, namely the agreements on the establishment of diplomatic relations, general economic, scientific, technical and cultural cooperation, the creation of the bilateral cooperation commission and a memorandum of understanding on political consultations between the respective ministerial departments.