Fradique of Menezes receives credentials of new Portuguese ambassador in Saint Tomé 2007-06-13 15:50:29
They are Tomé - Fradique of Menezes, leader of State santomense, received the credentials of two new ambassadors, of the Nigeria and Portugal, Sunday Dogonyaro and Fernando Axe respectively. Fernando Axe happens Madeira Barbaric that was probably the Portuguese ambassador that had the shortest mission in Saint Tomé and Prince.
In the cerimónia Sunday Dogonyaro promised to be practical in the development of the cooperation between the two countries. Through the zone of joint exploitation of oil, as well as in the heart of the Commission of the Gulf of the Guinea, the new representative of the Nigeria in Saint Tomé says that is going to stimulate the authorities of the two countries it implement several actions of common development.
Second Sunday Dogonyaro for beyond the agreement that links Saint Tomé and Prince and the Nigeria in the exploitation of the oil in the common maritime border, the two part have the opportunity of explore several areas of cooperation, so much to social and cultural as commercial level, and especially in terms of investment and infrastructure.
More populous country of Africa with more of 150 millions of inhabitants the Nigeria has played important paper in the maintenance of the peace and security in the African continent. The ambassador detached the peaceful resolution of the crisis frontiersman with the Cameroon as test of that "the Nigeria does not have any political weight neither económico for dominate his neighbors or any another country", uttered Sunday Oon.
The diplomat underlined on the other hand, the understanding achieved with Saint Tomé in 2001 for joint exploitation of oil and others resources in the maritime border as sign of singular maturity in the world and "unique in Africa". The ambassador guarantees that is going to work in the sense of give a new dimension the bilateral cooperation.
"In my meeting with the Minister of the Foreign Business, Cooperation and Communities of Saint Tomé and Prince, we agree about the need of identify the main areas of the partnership in order to to be programmed and developed quickly", fortified.
To dinamização of the actions of the commission of the gulf of the Guinea, agency created by the countries of the gulf and in that Saint Tomé and Prince occupies the charge of Secretary-general, is another one big priority for the Nigeria. The commission in cause has among other functions, promote the development económico and social of the countries members. Oil-producing giants as Angola, Nigeria, and Guinea Equatorial, healthy members of the organization that be thirsty in the Angolan capital, Luanda.
The ambassador of the Nigeria with residence in Saint Tomé, guaranteed the total endeavor of the news I govern of his country, led by the President Alhaji Umaru Muse Yar Adua, in the consolidation of the ties of friendship and cooperation with Saint Tomé and Prince, having increased have "the certainty of that sooner or later, the two leaders will find because of the our special relation", detached.
Sunday Dogonyaro that was a diplomat in the Nigerian embassy in the Africa of the South, and upper chart of the NEPPAD, to new strategic politics for the development of Africa, happens to Saidu Pindar, first ambassador of the Nigeria that was believed in Saint Tomé in 2001.
Fernando Axe, delivered his letters credentials to the President Fradique of Menezes, in a height in that the two countries are prepared for implement cooperation actions news. Second the ambassador, the sectors of the education and of the health continue it be the big priorities. In the next months equip technical of the two countries, go to delineate the structure of the news programs chart of bilateral cooperation.
The new representative of Portugal next to the state santomense happens Américo Madeira Barbaric, that was probably the Portuguese ambassador that had the shortest mission in Saint Tomé and Prince. Fernando Axe, that was believed promised that during his mission will be always pawned in maintain the very high level of relationship that fortunately exists between the two countries.
Fernando Axe said that will arrive to the country two technical missions for evaluate the results of the program of cooperation in course and prepare news areas for the near program that should be signed in the end of this year.
"The areas are varied. The priorities to this moment has been by indication are-tomense, the health and the education. Because, there is that put in office first in the persons, especially in the young, that is based on development of a country, afterwards there are other things agriculture. ..”, increased.
The defense and promotion of the cultural values that united Saint Tomé and Prince and Portugal since the century XV, healthy a priority. Fernando Axe, discords of the opinions that notice an accentuated break of the Portuguese cultural action in Saint Tomé and Prince. "I am here there is short time but do not I have it plan that have decreased. Before by the contrary one a thing that has me satisfied a lot is the activity of our cultural center, that was renewed. We have now a week of the Portuguese language with several activities and very competed. The culture for me is one of the main bridges between the countries, especially in that case, in that we share to same language", emphasized.
In what touches to the problem of the seen in the archipelago the diplomat recognized that is a sensible matter explaining that the visa access difficulty for entrance in Portugal and consequently in the space Schengen, technical assignment of the agreement that created the European common space, permitting to free circulation of persons between the several states members, has generated protests in the archipelago.
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