Luanda, 06/25 - The Angolan Foreign Affairs minister, João Bernardo de Miranda, on Tuesday in Luanda said that Angola and Cuba have exemplary friendship and co-operation relations since 1975.

The minister was speaking at the signing ceremony of two co-operation agreements with Cuba, specifically in the fields of judicial sentences execution and legal aid, in the ambit of the work visit that the Cuban Foreign minister, Felipe Perez Roque, is carrying out to Angola.

According to João Miranda there is a friendship between Angola and Cuba that is based on principles of solidarity, which bring about other elements of collaboration.

“(…) We are here with Cuba in brotherhood, to project this friendship that is exemplary to us” he stressed.

To him the two countries are involved in a relationship process and all bilateral co-operation should lead to the production of mutual advantages.

“During the visit of the Angolan President to Cuba, last year, it was reviewed all the juridical instruments that were signed since 1975” João Miranda explained, adding that a readjustment and updating of the co-operation was carried out.

Other accords have been signed since that visit, he revealed, the last one being an agreement on reciprocal promotion and protection of investments.

The Cuban official is in Angola since Tuesday.

After his arrival, Felipe Perez Roque already travelled to the south-western Benguela Province, and was received in an audience by the Angolan Head of State, José Eduardo dos Santos, to whom he handed over a message from Cuban President, Raúl Castro.

On the message Raúl Castro expresses his “willingness to continue working for the fulfilment of bilateral programmes of co-operation”.