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Angola: Ruling MPLA Party President Meets With ANC Colleague
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Angola Press Agency (Luanda)
20 March 2008
Posted to the web 21 March 2008
Luanda
Angola's ruling MPLA party president, José Eduardo dos Santos, met Thursday in Luanda with his counterpart of the African National Congress (ANC) of South Africa, Jacob Zuma, with whom he discussed matters concerning the strengthening of cooperation between the two parties.
Speaking to the press, MPLA information secretary, Norberto dos Santos "Kwata Kanawa", said that during the meeting, the two political party leaders discussed the reinforcement of relations between the two organisations.
He explained that contact mechanisms that include regular meetings between the two parties' secretary generals have been established to define working rules in the various domains of the political-partisan affairs.
"The two parties consider the need for regular exchange of information in the various domains of the internal affairs and external politics towards more and more reinforcement of the relations of friendship and cooperation that are good," he said.
Kwata Kanawa also said that MPLA and ANC are opening a new era in the existing cooperation and a strategy will be designed to improve it.
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The meeting that was held on the premises of MPLA National Committee, was followed by a lunch attended by delegations of the two parties in power in Angola and in South Africa.
Jacob Zuma, who is in Angola for the first time since elected ANC president, arrived in the country on Tuesday, to attend the celebrations of the 20th anniversary of the Cuito Cuananvale Battle, on March 23.
In the Cuito Cuanavale battle, the than Angolan Government forces (Fapla) beat the invading forces of South Africa, paving the way for the independence of Namibia and the end of the apartheid regime.
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