The President of the Republic, Filipe Nyusi, asks for the forgiveness of debts of creditors to African countries, in order to make the recovery of the economies, affected by the pandemic of the new coronavirus, more flexible.

Speaking this Thursday in Brussels at a meeting of some African leaders with the European Corporate Council for Africa and the Middle East, the Mozambican statesman justified his request with the fact that some African economies are vulnerable.

Quoted by Radio Mozambique, Filipe Nyusi, points to international solidarity as one of the keys to improving health systems in developing countries.

He stressed the need to put into practice the partnerships made between the European Union and the African Union.

"On other occasions, I just made a reference, you can vaccinate all of Europe, but Europe needs those others who are not vaccinated. Europe travels to Africa, Asia, and when it travels, it can come back with the disease that it didn't cure, that it didn't treat, because it selfishly treated only the space it cohabits," he said.

The meeting of African leaders for change preceded the opening of the sixth European Union-African Union Summit, taking place in Belgium.

The position of the Mozambican statesman was also the essence of the speech of the President of Senegal and the African Union, Mack Sall, in the opening session of the summit.

"Six hundred million inhabitants today do not have access to vaccine and still have a need, and we expect from Europe a very concrete proof of solidarity at this point, given those needs and the specific limitations of our continent," he said.

African leaders are asking the European Union to be more practical in the framework of cooperation between the two blocks, a position expressed at the sixth European Union-Africa Summit, which took place in Belgium and ended on Friday.