The President of the Republic, Mr. Abdelmadjid Tebboune announced, on the evening of May 23, 2023 from the Portuguese capital, Lisbon, the holding during the second half of the year 2023, of the Algerian-Portuguese Bilateral Summit, claiming to have agreed with his Portuguese counterpart to make 2023 a “pivotal year for the relaunch of major bilateral deadlines”.
In his speech at the dinner given in his honor by the President of the Portuguese Republic, Mr. Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, on the occasion of his State visit to this friendly country, President Tebboune indicated that he had agreed with President de Sousa to make the year 2023 a “pivotal year for the relaunch of major bilateral deadlines, at the top of which the Bilateral Summit scheduled for the second half of the current year, which we are about to to prepare, within the framework of the follow-up to the results of the Joint Working Group on Economic Cooperation held in Algiers on 15 and 16 May”.
In this context, the President of the Republic expressed his “deep” conviction of the “promising” prospects that should be exploited to lay the foundations of a “strong partnership”, specifying that this conviction had been put forward, Tuesday morning, during his “rich” talks with the Portuguese President.
President Tebboune, on the other hand, stressed the “strong determination of the two countries to work, on the occasion of the sixth session of the next high-level bilateral Algerian-Portuguese meeting scheduled in Algeria, to devote the continuation of the consultations policies and strategies and to evaluate bilateral cooperation mechanisms, with a view to promoting them at the level of strong relations of friendship and cooperation between the two countries”.
Finally, the President of the Republic took this opportunity to pay tribute to Manuel Teixeira Gomes, the first President of the Portuguese Republic who was “a witness to the contacts between two peoples who share the same noble human values and principles, because he loved Algeria and chose to live there to defend the freedom and dignity of his homeland, until he was buried there, in blessed land”.
