MAPUTO — The Algerian Minister of State, Minister of Foreign Affairs, National Community Abroad and African Affairs, Ahmed Attaf, commended on Tuesday in Maputo the “high level” of coordination between Algeria and Mozambique at the UN Security Council in advancing African Union (AU) interests and African causes, thanking Mozambique for its support during the recent elections, held at the 38th AU summit.
“I am sent by the president of my country to Mozambique for three key objectives: the first is to thank Mozambique for its help during the recent AU elections and to also express to President Daniel Chapo how proud we were to have worked with Mozambique at the Security Council, reaching a very high level of coordination in serving the AU and African causes,” he told the press after the audience granted to him by the President of the Republic of Mozambique, Daniel Francisco Chapo.
Attaf said that he expressed his “satisfaction” to the Mozambican president regarding the development of bilateral relations across all jointly identified priority areas.
In this regard, he said that he had also been carrying a message about ongoing “consultations between Mozambique and Algeria on Africa’s main challenges.”
He further cited the establishment of the African free trade zone, the ownership of peace missions in Africa, membership in the African Peace and Security Council and also both countries’ aspiration for “enhanced Africa representation in banking and financial institutions.”
The minister added that the messages he transmitted to President Chapo were “substantial and promising for the future” of relations between the two countries, and “present excellent prospects” for these relations.
He highlighted these relations as being “fundamentally rooted in shared values: those of justice, freedom, cooperation and the vision of securing Africa’s rightful place within the international community.”
