14 Spanish MPs in Namibia

A GROUP of 14 parliamentarians from the Kingdom of Spain arrived in Namibia on Thursday to visit Spanish-funded projects in Namibia and to have an exchange of views and ideas with Namibian MPs.

The leader of Spanish delegation, Jordi Vilajoana Rovira, who is president of the Spanish Parliamentary Friendship Group with Namibia, paid a courtesy call on Prime Minister Nahas Angula on Friday. The Speaker of the National Assembly, who accompanied the group, informed Angula that Namibian MPs formed a Parliamentary Friendship Group with Spain recently.The Spanish members will meet with their Namibian counterparts today after visiting the coast over the weekend, where they held talks with Spanish fishing companies operating in Namibia.They also travelled to the Queen Sofia project on a resettlement farm near Tsumeb.The Spanish MPs are from all seven political groups and parties in the Spanish parliament, including the Catalonian and Basque ethnic groups.”It is interesting that so many parties and groups are represented in the Spanish Assembly,” the Prime Minister told the visitors.”You have regional and ethnic groupings as well as political parties.This shows how you manage diversity.It is good for Namibia to learn from Spain how to manage diversity – doing that in Africa is a challenge.”The Speaker of the National Assembly, who accompanied the group, informed Angula that Namibian MPs formed a Parliamentary Friendship Group with Spain recently.The Spanish members will meet with their Namibian counterparts today after visiting the coast over the weekend, where they held talks with Spanish fishing companies operating in Namibia.They also travelled to the Queen Sofia project on a resettlement farm near Tsumeb.The Spanish MPs are from all seven political groups and parties in the Spanish parliament, including the Catalonian and Basque ethnic groups.”It is interesting that so many parties and groups are represented in the Spanish Assembly,” the Prime Minister told the visitors.”You have regional and ethnic groupings as well as political parties.This shows how you manage diversity.It is good for Namibia to learn from Spain how to manage diversity – doing that in Africa is a challenge.”