President of the Republic, João heading to France Photo:Pedro Parente
The President of the Republic, João Lourenço, left Luanda on Sunday to Paris, for a three-day official visit to the Republic of France.
According to a press release from the Civil Office of the President of the Republic, the Head of State will then make an official visit to the Kingdom of Belgium.
In France, the two countries will sign several cooperation agreements, with emphasis in the fields of defense, agriculture and human resources training.
In Belgium, an agreement on reciprocal visa exemption for holders of diplomatic and official passports as well as an agreement for the facilitation of visas for Belgian businesspeople are expected to be signed.
Angolan President, João Lourenço (right) and the President & CEO of Haldor Topsoe / Photo: Franciso Miúdo
The President and CEO of the Dannish group Haldor Topsoe announced on Monday in Luanda, the construction of a factory in Soyo municipality, Zaire province with the capacity to produce two million tons of fertilizer per year.
The project is valued at two billion dollars, totally private and will be built in three years, according to the president of the group, Bjerne Clausen, who spoke to the press after an audience with the Angolan Head of State, João Lourenço.
The factory will create four thousand direct jobs and forty thousand indirect jobs. Haldor Topsoe has already conducted a survey on the site where the factory will be built.
Between 2016 and 2017, the Angola’s import needs for fertilizers stood at 70,000 tons.
A session at the UN General Assembly (archive) / Photo: Don Emmert
Angola marks today the 41st anniversary of its admission as a full member of the United Nations.
According to a press release by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the admission of Angola as a member of the UN on December 1, 1976, was based on the resolution 397/76.
The press release notes that “for being a valid interlocutor, Angola has already been twice at the UN Security Council, as a non-permanent member (2003 – 2004 and 2015 – 2016)”. During its second mandate (2015 – 2016), Angola assumed the rotating presidency of the UN Security Council in March 2016.
Angola’s admission as the 146th UN member state enabled the then first Deputy Prime Minister, José Eduardo dos Santos, to address the UN General Assembly in New York.
In this capacity, José Eduardo dos Santos, delivered a speech highlighting the situation at the then People’s Republic of Angola, national reconstruction, solidarity with oppressed peoples and appealed for the need for equal treatment in the international context.
On the occasion of the 42nd anniversary of the independence, the Embassy of the Republic of Angola in Japan hosted a reception in Tokyo attended by senior officials from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan, members of the Diet, members of the diplomatic corps, representatives of the private sector and the civil society as well as members of the Angolan community in Japan. The Japanese Government was represented at the event by H.E. Mr. Iwao Horii, Parliamentary Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs. The Republic of Angola achieved its independence from Portugal on 11 November 1975.
President João Lourenço (right) and President Hery Rajaonarimampianina (letf) / Photo: Francisco Miudo
Angola and Madagascar officialized the bilateral cooperation on 18 November at a meeting in Luanda between the Angolan President, João Lourenço, and his Malagasy counterpart, Hery Rajaonarimampianina. The meeting between the two Statesmen was part of a working visit to Angola by the Malagasy President, aimed at strengthening ties of friendship between the peoples of the two countries.
At the end of the closed-door meeting, the Director for Africa and the Middle East of the Angolan Foreign Ministry, Joaquim do Espírito Santo, told the press that the meeting was also an occasion for regular consultations between the two states.
He said that these are consultations within the framework of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) and the African Union, organizations where both countries are members. Regarding the bilateral relations with Madagascar, Joaquim do Espírito Santo considered them excellent and promising.
He stressed the fact that Madagascar has experience in the field of agriculture, especially in the cultivation of rice. “It is in this field that Angola can create conditions for the exchange and cooperation,” said the Angolan diplomat.
President Hery Rajaonarimampianina left Luanda on 19 November.
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The Republic of Angola was elected on 16 October by the United Nations General Assembly in New York, as member of the UN Human Rights Council, for the period 2018 – 2020. Angola was among the four candidates from Africa to the Council, alongside the Democratic Republic of Congo, Nigeria and Senegal.
In all, the General Assembly elected 15 new members, four from Africa, four from the Asia-Pacific, two from Eastern Europe, three for Latin America and two for Western Europe and other States.
Angola got 187 votes, out of the 193 possible. The other elected members are Democratic Republic of Congo, Nigeria and Senegal (Africa), Afghanistan, Nepal, Pakistan and Qatar (Asia Pacific), Slovakia and Ukraine (Eastern Europe), Chile, Mexico and Peru (Latin America and the Caribbean) and Australia and Spain (Western Europe and other states).
Angola submitted its candidacy in 2016 and was endorsed by the African Union (AU) during the organization’s Summit in July of this year. Angola has been a member of the United Nations Human Rights Council in the past, having served two consecutive terms from 2007 to 2013.
Based in Geneva, Switzerland, the 47 members Human Rights Council is a subsidiary body of the United Nations General Assembly, responsible for the promotion and protection of human rights since its inception in 2006.
In order to deepen their understanding about the History, Culture, Society and other aspects related to Angola, a group of students from the Tokyo Metropolitan Roppongi High School visited the Embassy of the Republic of Angola on October 3, 2017.
The students attended a lecture by Mr. José Van-Dúnem, First Secretary.
João Lourenço, President of the Republic of Angola / Photo: JAIMAGENS
On September 28 and 29, the President of the Republic, João Lourenço, nominated, by presidential decree, the heads of different government departments as follows:
Manuel José Nunes Júnior, as State Minister for Economic and Social Development;
Pedro Sebastião, as State Minister and Head of the Security Office of the President of the Republic
Frederico Manuel dos Santos e Silva Cardoso, as State Minister and Head of the Civil Office of the President of the Republic
Salviano de Jesus Sequeira, as Minister of National Defense
Ângelo de Barros da Veiga Tavares, as Minister of Interior
Manuel Domingos Augusto, as Minister of External Relations
Augusto Archer de Sousa Mangueira, as Minister of Finance
Adão Francisco Correia de Almeida, as Minister of Territory and State Reform
António Rodrigues Afonso Paulo, as Minister of Public Administration, Labor and Social Security
Francisco Manuel Queirós, as Minister of Justice
Marcos Alexandre Nhunga, as Minister of Agriculture and Forestry
Bernarda Gonçalves Martins Henriques da Silva, as Minister of Industry
João Baptista Borges, as Minister of Energy and Water
Diamantino Pedro Azevedo, as Minister of Mineral Resources and Petroleum
Augusto da Silva Tomás, as Minister of Transport
Manuel Tavares de Almeida, as Minister of Construction and Public Works
Victória Francisco Lopes Cristóvão de Barros Neto, as Minister of Fisheries and the Sea
José Carvalho da Rocha, as Minister of Telecommunications and Information Technologies
Ana Paula Chantre Luna de Carvalho, as Minister of Spatial Planning and Housing
Pedro Luís da Fonseca, as Minister of Economy and Planning
Maria do Rosário Bragança Sambo, as Minister of Higher Education, Science, Technology and Innovation
Maria Cândida Teixeira, as Minister of Education
Sílvia Paula Valentim Lutucuta, as Minister of Health
Maria Ângela Teixeira de Alva Sequeira Bragança, as Minister of Hotels and Tourism
Victória Francisco Correia Conceição, as Minister of Social Action, Family and Women’s Promotion
Carolina Cerqueira, as Minister of Culture
Ana Paula Sacramento Neto, as Minister of Youth and Sports
Aníbal João da Silva Melo, as Minister of Social Communication
João Ernesto dos Santos, as Minister of Former Fighters and Homeland Veterans
Jofre Van-Dúnem Júnior, as Minister of Commerce
Paula Cristina Francisco Coelho, as Minister of Environment
Ana Maria de Sousa e Silva, as Secretary of the Council of Ministers
Members of the National Assembly take their seats at a constituent Meeting of the IV Legislature / Photo: Pedro Parente
The 220 members of the Parliament elected in the general elections held on August 23 of this year were sworn in at the National Assembly on September 28, for a five-year term. At the ceremony, the members of the Parliament took the oath of allegiance to the fatherland, received their individual badges, symbol of identification of the parliamentarians.
The Angolan National Assembly has 220 members, with 90 elected from provincial constituencies and 130 elected from a nationwide constituency. Following the general elections of 2017, the IV Legislature of the National Assembly will have 150 members from the MPLA, 51 from UNITA, 16 from the CASA-CE coalition, two from the PRS and one from the FNLA. Of the 220 newly elected members, 59 are women and 161 are men.
