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Rangel says that "no episode" will affect the relationship with São Tomé and Príncipe
The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Paulo Rangel, assured today that "no episode, whatever it may be", will be able to affect the relations between Portugal and São Tomé and Príncipe.
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"For us, São Tomé and Príncipe is a fundamental partner and, therefore, [the cooperation] will not suffer from any episode, whatever it may be", said Rangel, in Madrid, in response to questions from journalists about statements he recently made about the military cooperation agreement between São Tomé and Moscow.
Paulo Rangel considered that the statements he made were decontextualized and considered that "part of the noise that is made has no reason to be".
The minister defended that he expressed "some concern" about the agreement between São Tomé and Príncipe and Russia, because it was "a little unexpected", after having said "seven or eight times" that "obviously São Tomé is a sovereign state".
Rangel stressed that he also said that "it is not new" that other Portuguese-speaking countries have always had relations, including military cooperation, with the Soviet Union and then with Russia and that is why many of them have material from those times that needs repair and parts for maintenance and updating.
"The channels are all working. I spoke with the Minister of Foreign Affairs [of São Tomé and Príncipe], several Portuguese entities have spoken with São Tomé and, therefore, there is one thing I can say, cooperation with São Tomé, that will not suffer from this", he said.
Rangel added that, "obviously, between two good friends or two brother countries", it is also possible to talk "about the issues that sometimes require some clarification".
"This should be seen naturally and not as what was formerly called irritants", he said, referring to an expression of the former president of the Assembly of the Republic, the socialist Augusto Santos Silva.
Paulo Rangel was in Madrid today for a meeting with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Spain, José Manuel Albares.
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