Tokyo, April 19, 2021
Meeting with senior Hitachi officials, during the meeting the Ambassador of Angola to Japan, Rui Xavier, invited the renowned Japanese company to invest in the field of solid waste treatment in the city of Luanda.
Ethiopia, April 06, 2021
The Ambassador of Angola to Ethiopia, and Permanent Representative to the AU and UNECA, Francisco José da Cruz, today received, in audience, the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Japan in this country, Horiuchi Toshihiko, with whom he exchanged views on various bilateral and multilateral issues, in addition to issues related to the functioning of the AU, Regional Economic Communities (REC), Regional Mechanisms (MR), and combating terrorism.
The two diplomats took the opportunity for a brief related approach to Africa-Japan Cooperation Forum (TICAD).
March 29, 2021
Visit by Parliamentarians Mrs. Akiko Honda and Mr. Iwao Horii, Members of the Chamber of Counselors and the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan, with the Ambassador of the Republic of Angola, Rui Xavier.
During the meeting, issues related to the cooperation relations between the two countries and the holding of the next Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games were addressed.
Tokyo March 17, 2021
Courtesy visit of the new Ambassador of the Republic of Maldives H. E. Ibrahim Uvais.
March 03, 2021
Moment of delivery of a copy of the Patent Letter to the Honorary Consul of Angola in Japan, Ichiro Kashitani, President & CEO, Toyota Tsusho Corporation.
March 10, 2021
Meeting with the Minister for EXPO 2025, Mr. Shinji Inoue, the Ambassador of Angola and the Ambassadors of Malaysia, Kuwait, Slovenia.
H.E. Mr. Rui Xavier, Angolan Ambassador to Japan, was received on 1 February at MOFA, by the new Director of the Department of African Affairs, Ambassador Yonetani Koji.
The meeting requested by the Ambassador of Angola, focused on official visits and bilateral relations.
The Ambassador of Angola was the first African Ambassador to be received by the new Director.
H.E. Mr. Rui Xavier, Angolan Ambassador to Japan, received on February 1 in his office, Mr. Miyamoto, Head of the JICA Representation in Angola. During the meeting, projects underway in Angola with support from JICA were reviewed and others were analyzed, taking into account the excellent relations existing between the two countries. It was ensured by its interlocutor a greater engagement on the part of MOFA (Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan) and JICA for the realization of this aim.
First ceramic art class at the Embassy of Angola by professor Hatakeyama, who teaches actresses and actors at NHK. The class was organized by the Ambassadress of Angola, Ms. Fátima Xavier and Ms. Junko Katano. In this dramatic period with all the restrictions and problems related to COVID-19, these classes, in addition to being instructive, also help to relax and distract. Attended by some ambassadresses and members of the diplomatic corp of the Embassy of Angola.
Angola and Japan signed today, 14 of January, in the MIREX, in Luanda, the Agreement for Exchange of Notes for Implementation of the Program of Economic and Social Development in the Field of Demining.
Signatures of the said exchange of notes were, His Excellency Domingos Custódio Vieira Lopes, Secretary of State for International Cooperation and Angolan Communities and His Excellency Maruhashi Jiro, Ambassador of Japan to Angola.
The Economic and Social Development Program, valued at ¥ 210,000,000, consists of donating accessories for demining machines, a mobile workshop, spare parts and training for technicians to the National Demining Institute (INAD) of the Demining Executive Committee (CED) ).
The donation is part of the existing cooperation, in the demining sector, between the Government of the Republic of Angola and the Government of Japan, which consists of allowing long-term and dangerous labor-intensive operations to be drastically improved with the use of modernized machines.
