"We want for other countries what we want for ourselves - respect, in which the sovereignty of the other country is taken into consideration", said Rousseff. "We have to show that there is another form of relationship between equal countries. We have this responsibility".
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Brazil 'Willing to Invest Strategically' 20 October 2011
Maputo — Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff has declared that Brazil is willing to invest strategically in Mozambique, in order to ensure sustainable development with reciprocal benefits for the two countries.
Rousseff was speaking in Maputo on Wednesday evening at a meeting with her Mozambican counterpart, Armando Guebuza, during which the two delegations reviewed the current bilateral cooperation between Mozambique and Brazil.
"We are willing to invest strategically and here in Mozambique we would like to have a strong partnership between the government and the Brazilian companies which are operating in the Mozambican market", she said.
Rousseff added that more scholarships could be made available for Mozambican students to study in Brazilian universities. "We don't want to bring engineers or workers from Brazil, but to guarantee that it is Mozambicans who develop their country", she said.
In the area of health care, Rousseff said Brazil wants to see concrete steps taken so that a pharmaceutical plant financed by Brazil, and which will make generic anti-retroviral drugs, begins to operate in Mozambique by the first quarter of next year. Access to cheap anti-retrovirals is key for the treatment of Mozambicans infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. The latest statistics indicate that about 11.5 per cent of Mozambicans between the ages of 15 and 49 are HIV-positive.
"We want for other countries what we want for ourselves - respect, in which the sovereignty of the other country is taken into consideration", said Rousseff. "We have to show that there is another form of relationship between equal countries. We have this responsibility".
At the end of the meeting between the two Presidents, Mozambique's Minister of Industry and Trade, Armando Inroga, told reporters that the government regards Rousseff's visit as positive, and as opening prospects for consolidating bilateral cooperation.
He revealed that, in addition to projects already under way, such as the pharmaceutical plant, others are under discussion, notably Brazilian participation in the Moamba Maior dam, to be built on the Incomati river, and costed at over 500 million US dollars.
This dam, Inroga said, "apart from increasing the capacity to supply Maputo with water, will mean that more water is available for the Incomati basin which is a region with great agricultural potential".
Details of the dam will be discussed in November, when a Brazilian business delegation, headed by the Brazilian Minister of Industry and Foreign Trade, will visit Mozambique |
