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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.
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
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.
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.
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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
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.
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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.
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.
Source: ANGOP