June 15, 2022
The Ambassador of Angola in Japan, Rui Orlando Xavier, received on June 15, 2022, the Representative of CNN in Asia, Filipe Costa, with whom he had a pleasant conversation on issues of domestic politics in Japan, the Indo-Pacific and the world in general.
The CNN representative and former anchor of tvi in Lisbon is based in Tokyo.
June 14, 2022
The Ambassador of the Republic of Angola to Japan, Rui Orlando Xavier, received on June 14, 2022, the President of the Japan Institut for Overseas Investment (JOI), Toshiyuki Kosugi. During the meeting, cooperation relations between Angola and Japan were analyzed and how to attract more investment in Angola, by medium-sized Japanese companies, to leverage Angola’s economic development and consequent job creation.
June 9, 2022
The President of Toyota of Angola, Mr. Nuno Borges da Silva, delivered 55.000 maternal and child health booklets to the Secretary of State for Public Health, Mr. Franco Mufinda.
The Maternal and Child Health Booklet (MCHB) is one of the most important strategies for the integrality of the efforts recommended by the project, by documenting the records of the health and nutritional care services of the mother and child, from the prenatal consultations, delivery, postpartum, childcare, including vaccination schedule, nutritional monitoring, follow-up of the child’s neuro-psychomotor development, among other segments.
Having been launched in Luanda province as a pilot model in 2014, the provinces of Luanda, Benguela, and Huambo have started implementing MCHB since 2018 to date, subsequently, 6 more provinces (Zaire, Lundas North and South, Uige, Kwanza Norte, and Malanje) have already started implementing MCHB, in collaboration with other development partners, such as PSI and the World Bank. In addition, the project has also received a major contribution from the TOYOTA of Angola for printing a total of 755 thousand booklets.
June 03, 2022
It held today, Friday, June 3, in Luanda, the signing ceremony of the Agreement by Exchange of Notes, concerning the Debt Service Suspension Initiative and Susceptible Credits and Conditions of JICA between the Republic of Angola and Japan.
The agreement, of which signing ceremony took place at the headquarters of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, was signed by His Excellency Domingos Vieira Lopes, MIREX Secretary of State for International Cooperation and Angolan Communities, and His Excellency Takahashi Yusuke, Deputy Head of the Japanese Embassy in the Republic of Angola.
The agreement aims fundamentally at helping the Republic of Angola to improve debt transparency and management, as well as to honor its international commitments.
Due to the negative impact of COVID-19 on the countries’ economies, the Paris Club (informal group of official creditors, whose role is to find coordinated and sustainable solutions to the borrowing countries’ payment difficulties) and the G20, launched an initiative to grant a temporary suspension of the debt service due from May 1st to December 31st, 2020.
Japan is a strategic partner of Angola and has strongly supported the country’s development, acting with projects in social areas such as health, education, higher education, agriculture, energy and water, demining, among others.
DIRECTORATE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES, INSTITUTIONAL COMMUNICATION AND PRESS OF THE MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS (DTICII-MIREX) Luanda, June 03, 2022.
On May 28, 2022, at the Embassy of the Republic of Angola in Japan, a meeting convened by H.E. Rui Orlando Xavier, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Angola in Japan, accompanied by Mrs. Maria de Fátima Lima Xavier was heled with the Angolan community residing in Japan, with the purpose of transmitting information related to the elections and electoral process in Angola.
H.E. Ambassador emphasized that with the recent inauguration of the new headquarters of the National Electoral Commission (CNE) and National Scrutiny Center, by the President of the Republic, H.E. João Manuel Gonçalves Lourenço, on May 26 of this year, constitutes further progress on improvement to the democracy in Angola.
He highlighted that for the first time the Angolan Government has decreed to conduct of expatriate voting to citizens aged 18 and over with active electoral capacity, as stipulated in the Constitution of the Republic of Angola.
From this perspective, he stated that the Diplomatic and Consular Missions, which presented the highest numbers of citizens with consular registration, were contemplated with Official Electoral Registration. According to the Ministry of Territory Administration and State Reform (MAT), more than 18,000 thousand citizens were registered, in twelve selected countries, namely:
Africa: DRC, Congo-Brazzaville, Namibia, Zambia and South Africa.
Europe: Great Britain, Portugal, Germany, France, Belgium and the Netherlands.
America: Brazil.
Asia and Oceania: No country selected.
Regarding Asia and Oceania where Japan is included, besides being the continent with the smallest number of citizens, it is the place where the first cases of COVID-19 were registered and where strict border measures were implemented even to the point of closing border to non-residents.
Added to this fact, there were other reasons of a technical matter, which made it impossible for the technical team made up of officials from the Ministry of Territorial Administration and State Reform (MAT), Ministry of Justice and Human Rights (MINJUSDH) and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MIREX), to travel to various countries to install the technical system, the reason why the Government had to make a selection of countries considering rationalizing costs, technical and human resources and reduction of the number of the registered citizens.
H.E. Ambassador stated that since this will be the first experience of expatriate voting, it is predictable that there would be some unforeseen events, and he expressed that hopefully that the situation would be different and better in the 2027 election.
He also informed that the Government is creating all the conditions for the process of the election in a free, orderly, and transparent way, for which reason, he exhorted the importance of patriotism, regardless of where they live and each one can and should give their contribution to the development of their motherland.
EMBASSY OF THE REPUBLIC OF ANGOLA IN JAPAN, Tokyo, June 03, 2022.
June 03, 2022
On June 2, 2022, Ikebana International hold the donation ceremony to donate the amount raised in the Ikebana International Fair 2021 that was hold in December 2021. Honored by the presence of H.I.H Prince Takamado, the first lady of Japan, Mrs. Yuko Kishida, Mrs. Yuriko Koike Governor of Metropolitan Tokyo, Mr. Rui Orlando Xavier Ambassador of Angola in Japan, other members of the diplomatic corps and several other distinguished guests and members of the Tokyo Founding Chapter attended the ceremony.
Spouse of the Ambassador of Angola in Japan, Mrs. Maria de Fátima Xavier, was in the spotlight as the Chairperson of the International Ikebana Fair 2021. She delivered the donations to the Governor of Metropolitan Tokyo and the NPO “Musubie” that supports meals for children and made a speech thanking for the honor that was given to her and all the support and encouragement shown to her during her mission as Chairperson.
May 18, 2022
Image from the audience that His Excellency Domingos Custódio Vieira Lopes, Secretary of State for International Cooperation and Angolan Communities, granted today, May 18, to the Chargé d’Affaires of Japan in Angola, Yusuke Takahashi, with whom he discussed issues related to strengthening cooperation in the political-diplomatic, economic, social and reciprocal investment areas.
Angola and Japan intend to sign soon some legally binding instrument, so the meeting on Wednesday also served to align details on these matters.
High officials both from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Embassy of Japan in Angola attended the meeting.
DIRECTION OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES, INSTITUTIONAL COMMUNICATION AND PRESS OF THE MINISTRY OF FOREIGN RELATIONS (DTICII-MIREX), in Luanda, on May 18, 2022.
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