Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe has called for strengthening the relations with Equatorial Guinea and expediting the implementation of already existing agreements between the two countries, New Ziana reported on Wednesday.
Mugabe said this at a state banquet hosted in honor of visiting Equatorial Guinea's President Teodore Obiang Nguema Mbasogo on Tuesday. Mbasogo arrived in the country on Tuesday for a four-day state visit.
"It is my hope that Your Excellency's visit will lead to the identification of additional areas of cooperation, thus giving further impetus to the full and speedy implementation of the Cooperation Agreement signed between our Ministries of Agriculture in May 2006," Mugabe said.
He said the visit by President Mbasogo was a clear testimony to the friendship and solidarity that continued to grow between the two countries.
Mugabe cited the Zimbabwe-Equatorial Guinea Joint Permanent Commission set up in November 2004 and the General Agreement on Economic, Technical, Cultural and Scientific Cooperation of March last year as a framework through which cooperation could be enhanced.
Furthermore, Mugabe said, new areas of cooperation had been identified and were being pursued in the fields of energy, construction, tourism, mining, education, sport, culture, gender and forestry.
Meanwhile, President Mbasogo said the visit would give him an opportunity to learn and exchange information about the agricultural sector. "The future of Africa depends on agricultural development. It has the potential to satisfy the continent if well managed," he said.
Nguema said the agricultural sector in his country lagged behind as it was mainly based on cocoa and coffee production and lacked a variety of other crops which the country had to import from the West.
Source: Xinhua
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