Mozambique President Chapo describes State Visit to Malawi as productive for social-economic growth of the two countries through trade

* Calls for speedy implementation of the newly-signed MOUs to facilitate trade activities, energy, security and other sectors of development

* The two vowed at the press briefing held before Chapos’s departure to continue making progress on developmental and economic matters

By Eunice Disi Lole, MANA

Before his departure at the end of his two-day State Visit to Malawi, Mozambique Daniel Francisco Chapo described his engagements in Malawi as productive for the two countries’ social-economic growth through trade and other critical sectors of development.

At a joint press briefing held at Kamuzu Palace in Lilongwe, Chapo commended his host President Lazarus Chakwera for being an action-based eader and has called for speedy implementation of the newly-signed memorandums of understanding (MOUs) to facilitate trade activities, energy, security and other sectors of development.

President Chapo visit to Malawi marked 50 years of bilateral relationship between the two countries and at the press briefing both leaders vowed to continue making progress on developmental and economic matters.

Chakwera said he and his colleague have affirmed the facilitation of the transportation of Malawi’s petrol and diesel at the port of Beira, the construction of a dry port for Malawi’s use in Nacala for which Mozambique already pledged the provision of land and revival of rail transportation through the Sena Corridor.

He said they have also made agreements to accelerate the implementation of the Malawi-Mozambique Interconnection Power Line to link Malawi’s grid to Southern Africa Power Pool and construction of One-Go border posts at various points of entry between Mozambique and Malawi one of which was commissioned at Dedza-Calomue Border today.

Chakwera added that he was delighted that the visit by the Mozambican President had coincided with the Joint Permanent Commission of Cooperation whose positive outcomes are in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ public Communique.

“It is critical that that these developments should continue and I expect all Ministers who have been part of those discussions to sustain the momentum so that Malawians can see the full benefits of these interventions,” he said.

Among other engagements, the Mozambican leader visited Parliament Building and the Kamuzu Mausoleum in Lilongwe and he also engaged with the business community, both from Malawi and Mozambique and opened Dedza-Calomue One Go Border Post with President Chakwera.—Edited by Maravi Express