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Mr. Destino Pedro Nsevilu is the new delegate for Africa of the INTERPOL Executive Committee, after being elected on Wednesday in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, for a three years term.

Elected with 99.3% of the votes, Destino Pedro Nsevilu is the Deputy Commissioner for Criminal Investigation and Director of the INTERPOL National Office in Angola, according to a press release from the Angolan National Police.

Angola chaired for the first time the INTERPOL Executive Committee for Africa in the period 2008 and 2009. The former delegate was Commissioner Eduardo Cerqueira.

Source: ANGOP

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Superintendent Yoshie Suzuki, Chief of Kitazawa Police Station, Setagaya Ward, paid today, November 19, a courtesy call to H.E. Ambassador Rui Orlando Xavier. Superintendent Suzuki congratulated the new ambassador of Angola on his appointment. Ambassador Xavier thanked Superintendent Suzuki for the cooperation Kitazawa Police Station has been giving to the Embassy, particularly when it organizes events.

President João Lourenço                                  Photo: ANGOP

Angolan Head of State João Lourenço will visit Portugal from November 22 to 24 at the invitation of his Portuguese counterpart, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa.

According to the President’s Civil Affairs Office, this will be the first State visit of President João Lourenço to Portugal.

The President will be accompanied by the First Lady, Ana Dias Lourenço, a ministerial delegation and members of his office.

The official program includes visits to Lisbon and Porto. In Lisbon, the highlights of the visit will be a meeting between President João Lourenço and his Portuguese counterpart, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, and an address at the Assembly of the Republic.

In Porto city, João Lourenço will attend in a Portugal-Angola economic seminar that will bring together businessmen from both countries.

Source: ANGOP

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HE Mr. Rui Orlando Xavier, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Angola to Japan, presented on 5 October 2018, a copy of his letter of credence to H.E. Mr. Takeo Akiba, Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs of Japan.

Tokyo, June 18, 2019
The Ministers of Foreign Affairs of Angola, Manuel Augusto, and Foreign Affairs of Japan, Taro Kono, held a official meeting in Tokyo today, on the sidelines of the Ministerial Meeting of TICAD, which takes place in that city.

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.

Source: ANGOP

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.

Source: ANGOP

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.

Source: ANGOP

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.

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