Portugal’s prime minister Luís Montenegro will be arriving in Angola tomorrow, with a team of ministers and government officials, on an official visit designed to strengthen political, economic and cultural relations – and with a view to making contacts between the two countries’ government more regular and intense. During the visit, the PM is said to want to convey that the relationship with Angola “is an all-hours relationship,” and independent of any political cycle in either country. On the trip, which is to take in Luanda and Benguela, the PM will be accompanied by his minister of state and finance, Joaquim Miranda Sarmento, economy minister, Pedro Reis, secretary of state for foreign affairs and cooperation, Nuno Sampaio (representing the minister, Paulo Rangel, who is in Rio de Janeiro for the G20 meeting), and secretary of state for the treasury and finance, João Silva Lopes.
