Lamamra examines with Portuguese counterpart bilateral relations, ways to strengthen them

 
ALGIERS- Minister of Foreign Affairs and National Community Abroad Ramtane Lamamra held Wednesday, in Algiers, discussions with his Portuguese counterpart Joao Gomes Gravinho, with whom he examined the different aspects of the Algerian-Portuguese relations and ways to strengthen them in various fields, said the ministry in a statement. 
The two ministers held one-to-one discussions followed by a broadened working session which enabled examining “the different aspects of the relations between the two countries and ways to strengthen them in various fields.”
The two sides committed during this working session, held in the presence of Algerian and Portuguese delegations, “to continuing work as part of the Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Good Neighborliness signed by the two countries in 2005, in order to boost the positive dynamic characterizing the Algerian-Portuguese partnership.”
“A partnership getting a particular interest and a permanent follow-up of the President of the Republic Abdelmadjid Tebboune, as well as by his Portuguese counterpart Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa,” said the source.
The two ministers broached the Algeria-EU partnership, emphasizing “the importance of establishing a balanced relation that ensures the interests of the two sides, notably in terms of the political and economic situation of crisis marking the international relations and its effects at all levels,” the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement.