opposition party said that the meeting discussed as well the Angolan government’s effort towards improving the living of its citizens, under ruling MPLA party, of which José Eduardo dos Santos is president.
“Basically, it was a meeting at which I transmitted to the president some information on São Tomé and Príncipe”, he said, before adding that the relations between both peoples are “very good”.
According to him, as a leader of a political party, it is his intention that the relations between the two states move further and get strengthened.
He also highlighted the wish of the Angolan people to continue investing further in his country and in his fellow countrymen resident in Angola, with a view to overcoming the constraints hindering development in both countries.
MLSTP was the party that led Sao Tome and Principe in the first 16 years of the country’s independence, on July 10, 1975, having later on alternated with other political formations that emerged in the 1980’s.
São Tomé and Príncipe is a two-island nation of the Gulf of Guinea, with about 120,000 inhabitants, and Rafael Branco has taken various cabinet posts, including that of Foreign minister. Source: Angop