📋 Tender Overview
Angola and Egypt signed, this Wednesday, a bilateral agreement in the field of Defense, with a view to relaunching cooperation in this area. The Angolan Minister of National Defense, Veterans and Former Combatants of the Homeland, Joao Ernesto dos Santos Liberdade, who has been in Egypt since Monday for a 72-hour working visit, and his Egyptian counterpart, General Abdel Majeed Sagr, signed the agreement. In Cairo, Minister Joao Ernesto dos Santos agenda included several moments, including visits to military enterprises and institutions. The Angolan leader met with the Minister of State for Military Production, Mohamed Salah El-Din Mustafa, who gave him a presentation on military products, including weapons. The agenda included visits to the factory for developed industries and to the vehicle department of the engineering industries complex.
It was also filled with a visit to the monument of the late President Anwar Al-Sadat, the third Egyptian statesman who restored the multi-party system to the Arab country, assassinated by fundamentalists, in October 1991, a tribute to the Unknown Soldier, visits to the Command College and the General Staff, as well as to the House of the Authority for Financial Affairs of the Armed Forces. The ministerial delegation includes the Angolan ambassador to Egypt, Nelson Manuel Cosme, the Secretary of State for the Defence Industry, General Afonso Neto, the National Director of Defence Policy, Lieutenant General Paulo Francisco, and the diplomatic advisor to the Minister of National Defence, Brigadier Silvestre Gustavo, in addition to the Defence Attache in Cairo, Colonel Jose Pedro Mugimbo. The mission of Minister Joao Ernesto dos Santos ends on Thursday.
