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Marcelo considers that Spain getting closer to Angola “is very good for everyone”

The President of the Republic of Portugal, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, considered this Wednesday that Spain getting closer to Angola "is very good for everyone" and expressed himself "very happy" for the visit of the Spanish monarch, Felipe VI, to Luanda .

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Speaking to journalists, in the former royal arena, next to the Palace of Belém, in Lisbon, the head of state rejected seeing this visit as a threat to relations between Portugal and Angola: "I think it's a very good sign. happy," he countered.

According to Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, the Portuguese have been, in the European context, "practically isolated knights in the relations between Europe and Africa".

Spain "advance now towards a greater knowledge of the economy, society of other African countries, and great African countries and regional powers, as is the case of Angola and Mozambique, is very good for everyone, very, very good for everyone", considered.

For the President of the Republic, "the Portuguese who are there and the Portuguese economic activity that is there, is, is fine, is fundamental and will increase".

In his view, "the existence of Spanish, Italian or French activity – which there was in other times, especially in West Africa, and has diminished – is good, because it allows a connection between Europe and Africa that is not working in many cases".

"And when it doesn't work, it means that we are losing the great advantage that led Portugal to organize the two great Europe-Africa summits, with other European countries following along but a little reluctantly. That Spain has understood that is very good", he added. .

Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa defended that "investment and economic cooperation is needed to create conditions for Africans to be able to live and seek fulfillment in Africa".

Without that, "then Europe should not complain about migrations, about the problems of political, military and social instability that force the intervention of detached forces and European peacekeeping missions in Africa", he said.

According to the head of state, for Portugal it has been "difficult to explain this" to many European countries that have "no tradition of knowing the African reality".

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