The Portuguese ambassador in Maputo, Jorge Monteiro, estimated on Tuesday that around 20 agreements will be signed during the summit between Portugal and Mozambique, scheduled for the 8th and 9th of December.
“Expectations are high, we hope that around twenty bilateral agreements will be signed in various areas, from finance, cooperation in public administration reform, digitisation, renewable energies, a range of areas of activity,” said the ambassador.
The diplomat was speaking on the sidelines of a session to present the World Bank’s portfolio of projects and public procurement procedures, promoted by the bank, at the Portuguese Embassy in Maputo and the Portuguese Agency for Investment and Foreign Trade (AICEP), where, he said, the overall figure of projects and deals that could be concluded during the Portuguese-Mozambican summit, taking place in Portugal, is still being assessed.
“We also believe that new instruments to support the financing of the Mozambican economy will be discussed. We have high expectations that the conditions will be created to relaunch the bilateral relationship in the economic field and in the broader cooperation we maintain in Mozambique,” said the ambassador.
According to Jorge Monteiro, it is also expected that Mozambican companies will begin to invest in the European country, alongside the Portuguese private sector, which has around 500 companies in Mozambique.
