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Between Angola and Portugal there is only "good news", said portuguese President after meeting with João Lourenço

The portuguese President, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, said this Wednesday that in the relationship between Portugal and Angola there is only "good news" and it was these that marked the agenda of a meeting of almost an hour with João Lourenço.

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Questioned by journalists, the Portuguese President denied that the two had discussed the possible implications of the seizure by the Angolan Attorney General's Office (PGR) of the accounts and holdings of Angolan businesswoman Isabel dos Santos, who holds interests in Portugal.

"It's a subject that's unrelated to what we dealt with today, I'm not going to comment on it," she said after the meeting, at which the President, João Lourenço, did not make any statements.

Marcelo said that "the meeting went very well" and that there were only "sensitive" matters in the good sense of the word, in other words, about "the good news there is".

"It is a unique moment in political, diplomatic, economic, financial terms. A moment when there is really only good news, or almost, or on the way", he said. 

The two heads of state participated on Wednesday in Maputo, during the morning, in the inauguration of the Mozambican President, Filipe Nyusi, for a second mandate.

In the afternoon, they met at a hotel in the Mozambican capital, first just the two, for about half an hour, and then the rest of the delegations from each country - including the respective heads of diplomacy - for the continuation of the meeting.

"Bilateral relations are excellent," described the Portuguese Foreign Minister, Santos Silva, even for Portuguese companies, with "positive expectations of participating in Angola's development agenda and privatisation plan.

Asked whether issues of justice were discussed, the Portuguese governor simply said that "issues that belong to the executives" were dealt with, without details.

Santos Silva added that "the political-diplomatic relations between the two countries could not be better".

"Economic relations between Portugal and Angola are growing, they are very solid and will remain so. The more solid their bases are, the more relations develop and there is no need to be afraid of this," he concluded.

Manuel Augusto, the foreign minister, added that the two countries are "benefiting from the exchange of visits at the highest level, especially last year, and the environment that these visits have created.

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