"We introduced matters such as emigrant communities, administrative and financial modernization, opening up parliament to citizens, climate change and security", explained the president of the National Assembly of Cape Verde, Austelino Correia, after signing the protocol with the Angolan counterpart, Carolina Cerqueira, who started a three-day visit to Praia this Monday.
"All duly framed and resulting from the evolution of global conjunctures and the necessary adaptation of our action in the face of the experience acquired in these long years of parliamentary cooperation", summarized Austelino Correio, in the same statement, about the new areas covered.
The new parliamentary cooperation protocol will be valid for two years and contemplates, in relation to the previous one, "important innovations", according to the presidents of the two parliaments.
The president of the National Assembly began a visit to Cape Verde, which will last until Wednesday, the day on which Carolina Cerqueira will speak at a formal welcome session convened by the Cape Verdean body.
"We are going to renew the existing cooperation agreement that establishes parameters related to the positioning of the two countries in the international context and measures to modernize our institutions, as well as exchange experiences within the framework of the CPLP [Community of Portuguese Speaking Countries]", referred to the parliamentarian earlier.
In addition to Carolina Cerqueira, the mission of the Angolan parliament to Cape Verde includes the first secretary of the National Assembly, Manuel Dembo, the president of the parliamentary group of the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA), Liberty Chiyaka, deputy of the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) Mário Pinto de Andrade and the deputy and president of the Humanist Party of Angola, Florbela Malaquias.
