Maputo, July 28, 2025 (Lusa) - The Portuguese ambassador to Mozambique said on Monday that the Portuguese-Mozambican summit, scheduled for December in Portugal, represents a “significant strengthening” of cooperation between the two countries, and expressed his hope that more Mozambican companies would invest in Lisbon.
After presenting his credentials to the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation of Mozambique in Maputo, Ambassador Jorge Monteiro, when asked about the ambition to see more Mozambican companies investing in Portugal in the context of the summit on 8 and 9 December, told Lusa that this issue is one of the objectives of both countries.
“Without a doubt, without a doubt, a business forum will also take place on the sidelines of the summit, and these forums are also opportunities to strengthen partnerships. If there are many Portuguese companies in Mozambique, we also want to see more and more Mozambican companies investing in Portugal and also present in the Portuguese market,” said Jorge Monteiro.
He hopes that the event currently being prepared “will significantly strengthen bilateral relations at all levels”.
“We will work in all areas to ensure that the summit is a success in all fields. Portugal has comprehensive cooperation with Mozambique, we are present in practically all areas of cooperation and the summits, and this summit in particular, is an opportunity to raise the bar of bilateral relations,” said Jorge Monteiro.
For the diplomat, the two states are in a "favourable context" with the election of new governments, where there is room to define a framework for long-term cooperation and "take further" the strengthening of relations between Maputo and Lisbon.
The Portuguese prime minister announced on 3 July that the Portuguese-Mozambican summit would be held on 8 and 9 December in Portugal, and argued that the two countries have leaders at the beginning of their terms with the capacity to inject new energy into cooperation.
"We are in the first phase of the political cycle, which began with the election of President Daniel Chapo, and we are also in the first phase of the political cycle that began with the re-election of the current Portuguese government. Therefore, we are both in a position to give new energy to the relationship between the governments, between the countries and between the peoples of Portugal and Mozambique," said Luís Montenegro on that date, after a bilateral meeting with the Mozambican president, who was visiting Portugal.
“We had the opportunity to tentatively schedule the next summit for 8 and 9 December. There is no better expression of this desire to give new impetus to our relations than to resume these bilateral summits,” he added.
During the previous summit, the fifth Mozambique-Portugal summit, held in September 2022, in Maputo, 18 agreements and memoranda were signed between the two governments, covering areas such as institutional capacity building in the sectors of agriculture, education, justice, health, heritage and culture, the Portuguese School in Mozambique, the promotion of the Portuguese language and financing for companies and job creation in Cabo Delgado, a province in the north of the country.
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