Luanda — The Angolan vice president, Fernando da Piedade Dias dos Santos, arrived Wednesday at 01pm (12:00 pm time in Angola) in Burundi's capital city, Bujumbura to attend the inauguration ceremony of Pierre Nkurunzinza who was re-elected as president of Burundi on June 2010.

At the Bujumbura's international airport, Fernando de Piedade Dias dos Santos, who is representing the Angolan President, José Eduardo dos Santos, was received by the National Assembly speaker of Burundi, Pie Ntavyohanyuma.

Burundian minister of Foreign Affairs, Augusten Sanze, and the Angola ambassador to Tanzania, Ambrósio Lukoki, also witnessed the arrival of the deputy president of Republic of Angola.

The Angolan vice-president is being accompanied by the State Secretary of Foreign Affairs, George Chicoty.

Pierre Nkurunziza, the first Burundian president who officially visited Angola in April this year, at the invitation of his counterpart, José Eduardo dos Santos, starts Thursday his second mandate in the office.

Born in 1963, Pierre Nkurunziza came to power, for the first time in 2005, following the first democratic elections held in the Great Lakes'country .