Maputo, June 30, 2025 (Lusa) - The president of Mozambique, Daniel Chapo, said on Sunday there was a “common desire” to deepen cooperation with Spain, after meeting with King Felipe VI.
“This meeting was an opportunity to reiterate the ties of friendship and cooperation between Mozambique and the Kingdom of Spain, as well as to reaffirm our common desire to deepen bilateral relations in the political, economic, cultural and social fields,” reads a message posted on the President’s Facebook page.
Daniel Chapo arrived in Spain on Sunday for a working visit that will last until Thursday, announced the Mozambican Presidency, adding that the president will also participate in the United Nations conference on development financing, which is taking place in Seville, Spain.
In the statement, Daniel Chapo also said that Mozambique values Spain’s role as a “strategic partner” of the country, which will continue to work to strengthen the partnership for the benefit of the peoples of both countries.
More than 60 world leaders and 4,000 representatives of civil society will meet in Seville from Monday to relaunch development aid, and the United Nations (UN) reports that this aid requires an additional four billion dollars each year.
Chapo will be accompanied by several ministers, including the foreign minister, Maria dos Santos Lucas, the finance minister, Carla Loveira, and the minister of economy, Basílio Muhate.
The 4th UN International Conference on Financing for Development (FFD4) will take place from Monday to Thursday, ten years after the previous conference in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, in 2015.
The goal now is to “renew the global development finance framework” at a time of “significant geopolitical tensions and conflicts” and when the goals agreed by the international community in the 2030 Agenda have progressed slowly, according to the “Seville Commitment,” the declaration the UN has already negotiated and is expected to adopt next week formally.
Throughout its 68 pages, the “Seville Commitment” also emphasises that the strengthening of multilateralism, international cooperation and institutions such as the UN effectively responds to the urgent need to eradicate poverty and address the impacts of climate change, which are particularly severe in the world’s poorest regions.
Various countries will make unilateral announcements during the conference, presenting more concrete actions to be developed under the “Seville Platform for Action”, which the conference will present next week.
The Seville conference “is a unique opportunity to reform the international financial system”, which is now obsolete and dysfunctional, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said recently, adding: “In this turbulent context, we must keep our ambitions alive”.
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