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Portuguese Prime Minister António Costa defended Thursday that relations with Mozambique can not be paralyzed because the investigation into the hidden debts of the Mozambican state is not over yet [19659002] "said António Costa, adding that the two countries can not be" paralyzed in the past. "
" The future is here and it is for the future that we must look at, "said António Costa, interviewed by reporters after a cocktail party with about 200 men. Portuguese business in Maputo during a two-day official visit.
The head of the Portuguese government met with representatives of companies from various fields of activity, which, have "resisted" the crisis in Mozambique from 2016, aggravated by undeclared public debts of about 2 billion dollars.
money remains to be determined, in a scandal that has led the main foreign donors (including the Portuguese state) to give up direct support to the state budget two years ago.
Thursday, taking the example of Portuguese companies in this António Costa defended as "absolutely essential" that Portugal has with Mozambique "a relationship with the nive to the trust that these companies have had. "
This is what helps to overcome past situations in a healthy way, so that they"
Looking to the future and stimulating the Portuguese enterprises, António Costa stressed the activation of financial instruments, such as credit lines, "which can not be repeated, but also to ensure that we are not not paralyzed in the past ".
He also stressed "a strengthening of the strategic cooperation plan from 6 4 to 202 million euros: it is an important contribution and we must work with companies and authorities to find solutions" for Mozambican-Mozambican economic cooperation
Mozambique's message was clear: it appreciates Portuguese companies, by the way they resisted "and reveal" the ambition to turn the page, to launch a set of 39, absolutely structural infrastructures for a more sustainable economy and less dependent on external crises, "he said
At the cocktail party, one of the presences was that of the vice-president of the PSD, Nuno Morais Sarmento, who, however, dismissed the politico-partisan reasons for his presence at the event with the Portuguese Prime Minister.
Sarmento pointed out that he had affairs in Mozambique for 15 years via his cab inet of lawyers, and more recently with participation in a small hotel project.
The Vice President of the PSD welcomed the visit of António Costa, who considered, as Minister Augusto Santos Silva, "a reading of the African reality" and s & Is congratulated that there is no "irritant" for Mozambique, as it happened in the case of Angola.
Before the cocktail with about two hundred businessmen, at the Maputo Hotel where he stayed, Costa visited the port of Maputo and the Industrial Fisheries Company in the after-the-fact lunch, where he had the opportunity to see how certain types of seafood are preserved and packaged, one of the country's main exports.
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