Pointe Noire – Angola’s minister of Interior, Eugénio Laborinho, on Thursday said his country intends to strengthen and revitalize the defence, security and border protection cooperation with the Republic of Congo.
The Angolan official manifested the country’s willingness during a bilateral cooperation meeting with the Congolese minister of Territory Administration, Decentralization and Local Development, Guy Georges MBacka, held in the Congolese city of Ponte-Noire.
According to the Angolan minister, the country intends to develop a win-win cooperation, taking into account the current dynamics of the world and the growing internationalization of criminal phenomena, including cross-border.
The Angolan minister also stressed the need to establish partnerships to protect common interests.
"The excellent neighbourly relations established between the two countries, together with the fact that they share a 201-kilometer border strip, impose the need to cooperate in the most varied areas of specific competence," explained the Angolan minister.
The meeting, which brought together Angolan and Congolese defence and security experts, addressed issues related to illegal immigration, smuggling of goods and fuel, terrorism, trafficking of human beings, drugs, weapons and ammunition, indiscriminate slaughter of fauna and flora, as well as the counterfeiting of currency and illegal exploitation of fishery resources.
