The Diplomat
The Government yesterday authorized the Spain-Mozambique Country Partnership Framework 2021-2024 and the Spain-Cape Verde Advanced Cooperation Agreement 2022-2030.
On the one hand, the Council of Ministers approved the agreement acknowledging the Minutes of the VIII Meeting of the Spain-Mozambique Joint Commission for Cooperation, which approves the Spain-Mozambique Country Partnership Framework (MAP, by its acronym in Spanish) 2021-2024. The MAPs are the strategic and geographic planning instruments of the Spanish Cooperation. The Spain-Mozambique MAP 2021-2024 -which was agreed in October 2021 by the Secretary of State for International Cooperation, Pilar Cancela, and Mozambique’s Deputy Minister of Foreign Business and Cooperation, Manuel José Gonçalves- has as its framework the Basic Agreement on Scientific and Technical Cooperation between Spain and Mozambique, signed in Maputo on December 12, 1980.
Likewise, the Council of Ministers approved the agreement acknowledging the Minutes of the V Meeting of the Joint Commission between Cape Verde and Spain approving the Advanced Cooperation Agreement Spain-Cape Verde 2022-2030. Cooperation relations between the Republic of Cape Verde and the Kingdom of Spain date back 42 years, with the entry into force, on November 26, 1979, of the General Agreement on Scientific and Technical Cooperation, signed in Madrid on June 18 of that year. Since 2018, Spain considers Cape Verde as a strategic partner, due to its proximity to the Canary Islands, and as an Advanced Cooperation partner country, with which it proposes a renewed and strategic cooperation.
