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Friday, September 20, 2013
The UK and Mozambican governments are looking to form a high level partnership in several areas, including oil and gas. The two nations will also form partnerships in the agricultural and financial sectors Deputy Foreign Minister Henrique Banze told reporters while speaking at a joint press conference with the UK Under-Secretary of State for Africa, Mark Simmonds.
Banze said the two countries enjoy “very good relations at bilateral and multilateral levels and within the Commonwealth.” The proposed “high level partnership” is intended to take the relationship a stage higher.
Simmonds said the idea of a high level partnership was first discussed during the visit by Mozambican president, Armando Guebuza, in Aberdeen during July, where he attended an international conference on infrastructures for the oil and gas industry in Mozambique.
“My visit is a follow-up”, he said, “and we have been discussing how we might deliver the benefits of a high level partnership in terms of job creation and economic development in Mozambique.”
Such a partnership was intended to deepen the relations between the two countries “in key economic sectors that are priorities for the Mozambican government.”
The partnership “will deliver benefits to the Mozambican economy and people and help in our own UK economic recovery,” Simmonds added.
He said that, arising from the July conference, “there are on-going discussions about the role that Aberdeen universities could play” in the Mozambican hydrocarbon sector (through the training of Mozambican technical staff, for example).
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