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Map of Mozambique Last Reviewed: 25 June 2009

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INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

In spite of its Portuguese colonial inheritance, Mozambique enjoys close relations with its formerly British-ruled neighbours, largely because of shared experience in the struggle against white rule. This led to the country joining the Commonwealth in 1995. Mozambique contributed troops to UN peacekeeping in Burundi and participates in SADC peacekeeping training and planning.

Mozambique's Relations with the UK

UK and Mozambique have enjoyed close relations, initially because of a shared interest in ending UDI in Rhodesia, the fruits of which were seen in Samora Machel’s persuasion of Robert Mugabe to accept the Lancaster House settlement in 1979.

Cultural Relations with the UK

British Council Mozambique

Visits

Inward (from Mozambique)


Foreign Minister Leonard Simao spoke at a Wilton Park Conference in 2003. Then Frelimo Secretary General Armando Guebuza and Prime Minister Mocumbi visited in 2003. Then President Chissano met the Prime Minister at Chequers in 2001. President Guebuza met HM The Queen, Hilary Benn, Secretary of State for International Development, and Lord Triesman, then Minister for Africa, during a visit to the UK in December 2006.

Outward (to Mozambique)


HM The Queen made a state visit in 1999. Baroness Amos and Dr Kim Howells (then Minister for Consumers and Corporate Affairs), visited in 2000, and the Princess Royal did so in 2001. Baroness Amos and the Prime Minister made official visits in 2002, and Hilary Benn (then Minister of State at DFID) attended the AU summit in Maputo in 2003. Chris Mullin (then Minister for Africa) visited in 2004. Gordon Brown, then Chancellor of the Exchequer, visited at the beginning of 2004 and again with Hilary Benn in April 2006. Lord Malloch-Brown, Minister of State at the FCO, made an official visit to Mozambique in June 2009.

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Mozambique

Address:

High Commission of the Republic of Mozambique
21 Fitzroy Square
London W1T 6EL

Telephone:

(020) 7383 3800

Fax:

(020) 7383 3801

Office hours:

Mon-Fri: 0930-1300 and 1400-1700