“ANDwe are together, but not only in the doctrines, ideologies, strategies or tactics of each moment. We are together in what is fundamental, we are brothers. We are, we are and we will be brothers. May our fraternity live forever”, said Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, during his speech at the inauguration of the Montebelo Alcobaça Historic Hotel, owned by the Visabeira group, in a ceremony attended by the President of Mozambique, Filipe Nyusi.

The head of state also guaranteed the “strength of fraternity” between Portugal and Mozambique. “It’s not about having a community that speaks in common, it’s not about seeing bilateral relations on the political and diplomatic level. It’s seeing this community of affections, of feeling. [Alcobaça] and naturally understand what he meant to us and to you. That brings us together, that is indestructible. That is the spell of this moment.

Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa took the opportunity to “praise excellence in tourism”.

“Today we celebrate excellence in Portuguese tourism, in Mozambican tourism and in Portuguese and Mozambican tourism, because this is Portugal, but several Mozambicans worked here, in the work that we visited and inaugurated”, he stressed.

According to the President, it is through “the mediation of the group that receives us [Visabeira]” that Portugal is “present in tourism of excellence in Mozambique” and “Mozambique is present in tourism of excellence in Portugal”.

The President of the Republic said he felt “as a citizen”, that his homeland is Mozambique.

“The important thing about this moment is not so much the cult of the past. The past serves us as an example and motivation for the future. We are talking about the future in tourism, the future in innovation and science, in education, in social life and in all economic domains, but we also live for the essential future in fraternity among people, among peoples, among their representatives”, he insisted.

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