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DAKAR, March 13 -- Visiting Portuguese Prime Minister Jose Socrates on Thursday vowed to bring his country's cooperation with Cape Verde to a new level, the Pan-African News Agency (PANA) reported. Socrates, who arrived in Praia, the capital city of the former Portuguese colony, for a three-day visit, was quoted as saying he would propose to officials of Cape Verde a new phase of cooperation programs. There "exists a level of maturity" in bilateral relations, which, however, need a new model to promote cooperation in different fields, said the Portuguese premier. Socrates said he came up with "an agenda of the more ambitious, which honors the history and the links between the two peoples." "It is for this that I am in Cape Verde with an important delegation of ministers and secretaries of state," he added. Socrates stressed the proposed new-phase cooperation will center on the most modern areas, without elaborating. Cape Verde, a 10-island Atlantic archipelago 500 km off the West African coast, declared independence on July 5, 1975. The island state of half a million population is being hit by the global financial crisis, with its money making industry of tourism bearing the brunt and investments tailing off. |
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