11-13 July 2019, Luanda, Republic of Angola: Germany’s pro tempore Federal Council President Daniel Günther, Premier of Schleswig-Holstein, led a high-ranking political delegation to Angola. Central topics of bilateral exchanges included the issues of decentralisation, local politics and the economy.
In the Angolan capital Luanda, Daniel Günther was received by the Angolan President João Manuel Gonçalves Lourenço.
The President of the Federal Council likewise encountered the President of the Angolan Parliament, Fernando da Piedade Dias dos Santos, the Minister of Petroleum and Natural Resources, Diamantino Pedro Azevedo as well as the Minister of Defence, General Salviano de Jesus Sequeira.
The Angolan Minister of Culture, Maria da Piedade de Jesus, received the President of the Federal Council for an evening at the Museum of Anthropology [Museu Nacional de Antropologia]. Since 2018, the museum agreed to cooperate with the Ethnological Museum in Berlin and the Goethe-Institut in Angola.
For further information:
- Bundesrat: https://www.
bundesrat.de/SharedDocs/texte/ 19/20190715-rueckblick-angola. html?nn=4969076 - Presidency of Angola: https://en.wikipedia.
org/wiki/President_of_Angola - Embassy of Angola to Germany (HE Alberto Correia Neto): http://www.
botschaftangola.de/pt-pt/
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Pictures by Staatskanzlei Schleswig-Holstein.
