Timor-Leste and Guinea-Bissau sign Bilateral Agreement of Cooperation
On May 19, Timor-Leste and Guinea-Bissau signed, in the Government Palace, a Bilateral Agreement of Cooperation for the economic, social, cultural, scientific, technical, technologic and petroleum areas. This Agreement was signed by the Timor-Leste Minister of Foreign Affairs, Zacarias Albano da Costa and his homologous from Guinea-Bissau, Adelino Mano Queta.
“The signing of this Agreement intensifies the bilateral cooperation between the countries in the economic, social, cultural, scientific, technical, technologic and petroleum areas. From these the focus goes to the petroleum area since Guinea-Bissau also has petroleum resources although these haven’t been explored yet. The Timor-Leste experience can serve as a model for Guiné-Bissau”, explained Zacarias Albano da Costa.
Adelino Mano Queta, Guinea-Bissau’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, stated that “the implementation of this Agreement, signed by both countries, will ease the political and economic relationship that had begun previously. Now we enter in the development phase to discuss about issues that may bring benefit to both countries”.
