Luanda — Angola's Prime Minister Fernando da Piedade Dias dos Santos defended today in Luanda, the establishment of alliances and improvement of co-operation, at all levels, with Angola's international co-operation partners.

Addressing the opening session of the talks between the Governmental delegations of Angola and Guinea-Bissau, Mr dos Santos underlined that only this way it is possible to face up the challenges of reconstruction and rehabilitation of the country.

He said that is why the Angolan Government defined as urgent tasks the country's reconstruction and the promotion of the national development, in particular the reduction of poverty.

Other tasks are related to the re-launching of the economy and the promotion of the international and regional political and economic relations, that guarantee the development of Angola.

In the field of the economic activity's re-launching, the Angolan Premier said that that his Executive has started, with own resources, the recovery of the economic and social infrastructures destroyed by the war, in order to enable creating the conditions for the captation of the national and foreign private investment.

Referring to the visit of Guinea-Bissau's Prime Minister, Carlos Gomes Junior, Mr dos Santos said that it represents the beginning of a new era in the relations between the two Portuguese speaking countries, whose co-operation and friendship ties are expected to be strengthened and developed.

This wish was also shared by Mr Gomes Junior, who said that there is an "intense political will" by his country's authorities for the establishment, with the Southern African nation, of the co-operation relations in different levels and sectors of the political, economic and cultural life.

In the talks, started today, are under debate issues related to the co-operation in the fields of defence and security, mass media, fisheries, air transport, business investment, university education and reinsertion of former combatants.