New SADC Group Boosts Vietnam-Africa Cooperation

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New SADC Group boosts Vietnam-Africa cooperation
11/30/2012 8:46:00 AM | The Voice of Vietnam

(VOV) - Angola, Mozambique and South Africa will launch the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) Group in Vietnam on November 30.

The launch was announced in a joint press briefing held by the Embassies of Angola, Mozambique and South Africa in Hanoi on November 29.

According to Mozambique Ambassador Gamiliel Munuamble, the Group will create a platform for SEDC member countries to meet and exchange views and information on a number of issues pertaining to the organisation, as well as to coordinate actions within the context of the relationship with the host state and other international partners residing in the country.

The SADC Group in Hanoi will focus on promoting and coordinating SADC policies to its member countries in Vietnam, while stepping up the SADC international agenda of cooperation by identifying international partners and promoting the organisation’s potential. It will promote cooperation between SADC and Vietnam, as well as with regional economic organisations including ASEAN.

SADC, currently chaired by Mozambique, was created in April, 1980. Initially the Southern Africa Development Coordination Conference (SADCC), it later turned into the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) in August, 1992.

The SADC Community is composed of 15 countries: Angola, Botswana, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Seychelles, South Africa, Swaziland, the United Republic of Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe which have a total population of 257.7 million and a GDP of US$471.1 billion.


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What is Southern African Development Community (SADC)?


WIKI

Southern African Development Community - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Southern African Development Community (SADC) is an inter-governmental organization headquartered in Gaborone, Botswana. Its goal is to further socio-economic cooperation and integration as well as political and security cooperation among 15 southern African states. It complements the role of the African Union.

Member states
SADC has 15 member states, one of whose membership is currently suspended:

Angola
Botswana
Democratic Republic of the Congo – since 8 September 1997
Lesotho
Malawi
Mauritius – since 28 August 1995
Mozambique
Namibia – since 31 March 1990 (since independence)
Swaziland
Tanzania
Zambia
Zimbabwe
South Africa – since 30 August 1994
Seychelles – also previously been a member of SADC from 8 September 1997 until 1 July 2004 then joined again in 2008.

Suspended

Madagascar – Membership currently suspended after the coup d'état led by the former mayor of Antananarivo Andry Rajoelina.[1]

 

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Vietnam, Angola boost agricultural cooperation
11/30/2012 12:53:26 PM | Voice of Vietnam

(VOV) -Vietnam and Angola have agreed to boost bilateral cooperation in the growing of rubber, coffee and wet rice.

During the Vietnamese delegation's recent working visit to Angola, State Minister of Angola Jode Amaru Tati highly valued Vietnam’s practical experience in developing the agricultural sector and expressed hope that the visit will contribute to further tightening ties of the friendship, solidarity and cooperation between the two countries.

The Vietnamese delegation conducted a survey into wet rice cultivation in Bie and Luanda provinces and exchanged experiences with local officials and people in building transport and irrigation systems as well as models of rice cultivation.

Both sides pledged to complete and submit a feasible study into wet rice cultivation in Luanda to the two governments as soon as possible.