The visit of Vera Daves de Sousa, according to the press release, aims to strengthen financial and technical cooperation ties, as well as interaction with Portuguese financial institutions, which have been financing various public projects included in the General Budget of the State.
The Angola-Portugal bilateral cooperation relationship, which the Government intends to reinforce with this visit, is characterized, at a financial level, by a line of financing and, at a technical level, by the interaction between the tax administrations, within the scope of an Assistance Agreement Administration in the area of customs.
During its stay, the delegation has scheduled technical meetings with units of similar structures of the finance ministries of the two countries, with emphasis on meetings between study offices and between public institutes that manage the public debt.
The visit program also includes a meeting with the Direcção Geral de Contabilidade, with a view to addressing technical cooperation in matters such as the accounting system in Portugal, internal control, IT System Applied to Public Accounting, within the framework of the vision of Angola migrating to adoption of IPSAS (International Accounting Standards Applied to the Public Sector).
Vera Daves de Sousa is accompanied on this trip by the directors of the Studies and International Relations Office, Patrício Neto, of the National Directorate of Public Accounting, Sílvio Custódio, and of the Public Debt Management Unit, Dorivaldo Teixeira.