Luso-Mozambican Summit on 8 and 9 December

Prime Minister Luís Montenegro met with the President of Mozambique Daniel Chapo and announced at the joint press statement in Lisbon that the Luso-Mozambican summit will be held on 8 and 9 December in Portugal.

Luís Montenegro claimed that "we are in a first stage of the political cycle, which began with President Daniel Chapo’s election, and we are also in a first stage of the political cycle that began with the current Portuguese Government’s re-election. As such we both in a condition to bring new energy to the relationship between our Governments, our countries, and our people".

"There is no greater expression of this willingness to bring new impetus to our relations than resuming these bilateral summits", he said, adding that during the summit we will try to "develop cooperation instruments in areas such as health education, mobility, security, and defence".

The Portuguese Government "will also do everything it can to set up appropriate instruments to develop more commercial exchanges and also more investments".

"We have around 400 Portuguese companies in Mozambique and our willingness is for them to have a higher turnover and for others to join them", he said.

The Prime Minister said the Portuguese Government has "followed with a positive spirit and hope in the results that the entire political stability process and implementation of reforms and transformations in Mozambique, which are a mainstay to be able to endeavour in this effort of economic cooperation and corporate investment. That is what will be able to drive not just the continuation of many of the activity sectors that have been behind that presence, as well as being able to open new sectors and new opportunities", he stressed.

Luís Montenegro also said that "Portugal will continue strongly committed to supporting the Mozambican state politically and financially to diminish instability and the rise in terrorist acts. We monitor the initiatives with a view to overcoming the situation in Cabo Delgado, both directly and bilaterally, as well as the EU level where we have insisting in upholding the continuity of the respective financial support".