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Angolan President, José Eduardo dos Santos, said
here, that the visit of his French counterpart, Nicolas
Sarkozy, will mark the start of a new era in the relationship
between both countries, after a long period of misunderstandings,
that “we expect to be definitely solved”.
Speaking at the official lunch offered to the French statesman,
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| Dos Santos added that” we
should make an effort to adjust the new policy relations in the
economic cooperation levels and the existing commercial interchange
between both countries.
According to the Angolan head of State, more than 2000 French citizens
live in the country, and the annual business volume is estimated
at over USD 2.5 billion.
President Dos Santos highlighted also the fact of operating in the
country more than 70 French companies, among them TOTAL-ELF, which
operates in oil fields whose reserve is worth in 1,284 billion of
barrels, being its volume of production estimated at 203,000 barrels
per day.
The Angolan government will continue its policy of cooperation in
these and other sectors, thus contributing to the energetic security
of its strategic partners, the statesman added.
“We intend, for this fact and not only, that there must be
stability and security in the Gulf of Guinea, reinforcing there,
the mechanisms of cooperation and arrangements among the interested
ones, respecting the power of the African States”, he stressed.
Source: ANGOP |
