Pretoria, ANGOLA, November 10 - The reinforcement of the co-operation in sectors like banking, veterinary services, higher education, visa exemption on ordinary passports, among other issues, are on the agenda of the visit of President João Lourenço to South Africa, set to happen sometime next week, at the invitation of President Jacob Zuma.,

This information was given last Thursday by the South African minister of International Relations and Co-operation, Maite Nkoana-Mashabane, after a meeting with the Angolan Foreign minister, Manuel Augusto, who is in Pretoria since last Wednesday.  

 

To prepare João Lourenço’s visit, the two Foreign Affairs ministers analysed on Thursday, in Pretoria, the programme and the topics for the top level encounter between the two statesmen.  

 

Manuel Augusto said to the press that he discussed with his South African counterpart some juridical tools relating to the bilateral co-operation, documents which are to be signed in this presidential visit.

 

He said President João Lourenço will make this official visit to South Africa with the view to boost the bilateral co-operation in various domains.

 

The two Foreign ministers also analysed the evolution of the issues debated at the fourth meeting of the Angola/South Africa Joint Commission, held in July this year, in Luanda.

 

“The tools that we need to make this become a reality have already been discussed, so now we need to mobilise the operators to implement the projects, with the institutional support of the State”, Manuel Augusto explained.   

 

Angola and South Africa have as co-operation tools a General Agreement on Economic, Scientific, Technical and Cultural Co-operation signed on April 1998, and the Agreement on the Setting Up of the Bilateral Co-operation, signed in November 2000.

 

Between 2003 and 2007 the two countries analysed the institutional co-operation only twice, at the level of the Joint Bilateral Commission.

  

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