NAH
COURT HUNTLA
The NRM was having increasing success militarily, but it was not an alternative government. It had no ideology and was purely a negative, anti-Frelimo movement. It also had no leaders of the stature of Machel, but only anonymous and squabbling gencrals.
Fortuguese cooperation with Mozambique
5. The main purpose of the visit had been economic. needed the trade.
Portugal Six bilateral agreements were signed including a loan but these were mere skeletons and would be worth nothing if not followed un. The rain thing they had tried to stress was that the relationship corld not be one way. profit as well as Mozambique.
Portugal had to The Portuguese businesswer who accompanied Balserão found their lozambican opposite numbers friendly, but there wore fundamental difficulties, partly becauNE of the guilt complex of the colonial relationship, and p.... tlj because of the different ways of doing things. Many of the programmes would be through trilateral cooperation. Hachel had one particular pet project, which was trilateral cooperation with Portugal using Arab finance.
6. The success of the visit was important for the AD, as they had to show that they could be as successful in Africa Eanes. Luckily Eelserão and liachel had established gouinely good
as President personal relations, which had helped the visit. He did not know if there was any truth in the rumour that Putscher Pereira would return to Mozambique this year.
Zimbabwe
7. The main message in Zimbabwe had been that they were anxious for Portuguese assistance to Hozabique to be a success. were worried about their access to the sea, and actually told t
Ther Fortuguese which projects they should support, and which they should not. The stopover in Nigeria was simply a courtess
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João Ramos had also taken part in Huang Hua's visit to Fortugal. The Chinese Foreign Minister had not raised the inr20 of the status of Macao with any Fortuguese Hinister, and it was only discussed during his call on the President because Ennos reinod it. He believed that the Chinesc wished to maintain the surtuc que in Maceo until they had decided what to do in Bou Kong.
Despite the question of the lease, for the Chinese lincao and Hong Kong were the same problem.
7 July 1982
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