Welcomed on the evening of Thursday 6 July 2023 (just before 4 p.m.) by his Burkina Faso counterpart and his delegation, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Portugal, João Gomez Cravinho, paid a “visit of friendship” to Burkina Faso. An opportunity for both parties to further explore avenues for a win-win partnership for the people of Burkina Faso and Portugal.
According to the head of Portuguese diplomacy, this visit comes within the framework of strengthening friendly relations between the peoples of Burkina Faso and Portugal.
said Portugal’s foreign minister, João Gomez Cravinho, as he got off the plane.
The host explained that the European Union, whose country has joined its membership, is ready to assist Burkina in its search for security and development solutions.
According to the saint of Burkinabe diplomacy, Olivia Rwamba, the exchanges during this visit are expected to lead to mutually beneficial conclusions and recommendations for Burkina Faso and Portugal.
“It will be a framework for exchanges that will make it possible to identify all the aspects inherent in the context that Burkina Faso is going through. It (accommodation: editor’s note) will be an opportunity for my dear counterpart from Portugal to convey to the level of the European Union, some proven version of what we experience as a context; and this will allow good cooperation between Burkina Faso and the European Union”, Olivia Ruamba, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional Cooperation and Burkina Faso Abroad, welcomes.
This short stay (his return will be scheduled for tonight: editor’s note) of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Portugal, coming from Abidjan, centers around a meeting with the interim President, the Head of State, and the exchange of Dr. The counterpart of Burkina Faso, accompanied by other ministers.
For the record, one of the latest high-profile news between Burkina Faso and Portugal dates back to Thursday 19 April 2018, when the then President of Faso, Roch Kaboré, along with fourteen others, received the credentials of Paulo Jorge Pereira do Nascimento. Ambassador of Portugal to Burkina Faso, residing in Dakar (Senegal).
- Minister Olivia Rwamba was at his side, Minister Plenipotentiary in charge of Security, Mohamedou Sana (greetings to the host here).
In 2001 Portugal decided to strengthen its bilateral cooperation with Burkina Faso, which led in February 2002 to the signing of a framework agreement, following the visit of the Portuguese Minister of State for Foreign Affairs to Burkina Faso. Thus a Mixed Cooperation Commission was set up between Lusso and Burkina Faso, whose task is to study means of strengthening cooperation in areas of interest.
On February 25, 2009, the Council of Ministers adopted decrees opening a consulate and appointing Helder Battaglia dos Santos to the post of Honorary Consul of Burkina Faso in Lisbon (Portugal).
Oumar L. Ouedraogo
Lefaso.net
