With know-how and some cadres with African experience resulting from the cooperation of the former Eastern European bloc/USSR with post-independence African countries, namely among Lusophones in the 1970s, the Czech Republic, along with Hungary, is one of the countries that has shown greater interest in expanding economic and business relations to African countries, in the context of the new European Union-African Union Cooperation Framework Agreement, which emerged from the last EU-Africa Summit ( AM 1340).

The possibility of Bissau becoming the “gateway” of the new political and economic approach of the Czechs in the region has mobilized the Guinean ambassador in Lisbon, HÉLDER VAZ (diplomatic representative not residing in Prague), in meetings with Czech officials. READ MORE