O Since the first election between the two heads of September, and Carlos Vila Nova of September considered as “completed the mission”.

“Relations were already excellent in fact and, when choosing Portugal to make an official abroad, at the State level, I wanted to clearly highlight the importance of relations and activate my commitment affirmed in all the same relations”, interview to Lusa, the President of the Republic of Sao Tome.

Portugal and São Tomé and Príncipe signed the Strategic Cooperation Program at the end of last year, worth 60 million euros until 2025, and this visit was intended to “highlight interest” in areas of “high interest”, said Vila Nova, highlighting have had “the reception of the Portuguese authorities at all levels”.

During his visit, Carlos Vila Nova was received by the President of the Republic, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, by the President of the Assembly of the Republic, Augusto Santos Silva, and by the Prime Minister, António Costa, in addition to visiting the Lisbon and Oeiras and Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Lisboa, and to have met with Portuguese companies.

In health, for example, São Tomé wanted to explore the possibility of having diagnostic and treatment facilities in the country, which would allow “to relieve the pressure that the Portuguese State itself also suffers in an indirect way”, for São Tomé patients.

“Once upon a time we make one of the available resources and then we have the resources necessary to take advantage of this treatment” not commented.

One of those valences, said the Portuguese President, at the end of the meeting with his Sao Tome counterpart, on Tuesday, is the creation of a hemodialysis center in Sao Tome and Principe.

Mobility, delays in visa visas for Sao Tome citizens to Portugal, which Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa classified as “cyst”, Vila Nova said he believes that this will be a visa, which will allow the visa process from there to here.

Citizens of Portugal and countries of the European Union and the Community of Portuguese Speaking Countries (CPLP) do not need a visa to shorten the state of São Tomé and Príncipe.

Regarding maritime piracy in Guinea’s golf, an area in which Portugal provides “very important assistance with equipment and training”, with the presence of the PATRULHA ship “Zaire” in São Tomé’s waters, the two consider that, “in view of the current”, it is justified to pay more attention to this phenomenon and to integrate the context including other partners in this process”.

After the meeting, at Palácio de Belém last Tuesday, the Portuguese President promised support in terms of cooperation, and also in the organization of the following laws, municipal and regional, scheduled for September 25, and to face the resources contracted by the heavy rains that exercise the country end of December, budgeted at 333 million euros.

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