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  • 20 MAIO 2024
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Montenegro wants more Portuguese investment in Cape Verde

Prime Minister Luís Montenegro wants more Portuguese investment in Cape Verde and today promised to work towards creating the conditions for this to happen, at the end of the first day of his visit to the archipelago.

Montenegro wants more Portuguese investment in Cape Verde
Notícias ao Minuto

21:38 - 20/04/24 por Lusa

País Governo

"The Portuguese Government is committed to strengthening all cooperation mechanisms with Cape Verde, so that Portuguese companies" investing in the archipelago can have "new opportunities", he said at the end of a courtesy meeting with the President of the Republic, José Maria Neves. 

The visit to the presidential palace, in Plateau, the historic center of the capital, Praia, closed today's program, which also included a meeting with the president of the National Assembly, Austelino Correia, and visits to some ventures.

Montenegro visited a renewable energy center that operates in the vicinity of the capital and the technology park that is being built in the city of Praia.

"Taking advantage of this strategy of diversification of the Cape Verdean economy" should be in the sights of Portuguese investors, he said.

With this visit, his first outside Europe, "conditions have been created so that the governments and sovereign bodies of the two States can cooperate in the service of the communities" of both countries, he summarized.

On Sunday, the agenda includes a visit to the historic site of Cidade Velha, where a meeting will be held with representatives of the Portuguese community, which ends the visit to the archipelago.

The Prime Minister referred to the return to Portugal any comment on the functions of the Attorney General of the Republic, after being questioned by journalists about the statements of the President of the Republic, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa.

"When I return to Portugal, I will have the opportunity to answer this and other questions," said Luís Montenegro.

The President of the Republic said on Friday that it is up to the Government to take the initiative to propose, eventually, the end of the functions of the Attorney General of the Republic, as well as her appointment, stating that Lucília Gago's mandate ends in October.

"You know that the one who has the initiative to propose the end of the functions of the Attorney General of the Republic is the Government. Neither the previous nor the current one has ever shown the intention of proposing the end of the functions of the Attorney General," Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa told journalists, at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, in Lisbon.

The Head of State was speaking about the most recent developments in Operation Influencer.

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