According to state-controlled daily newspaper, Noticias, the decision was taken during a meeting between Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi and the Prime Minister of Mauritius, Pravind Kumar Jugnauht, as part of Nyusi’s state visit.
Nyusi arrived in Mauritius on Wednesday for a four-day official state visit.
Addressing a media briefing late on Thursday, Nyusi explained that the joint committee should meet at its first session later this year, preferably during the first half.
“It is a pride to have an African country that makes a lot of investments in Mozambique. It (Mauritius) is in the group of 10 major investors. In five years, it has managed to make investments of more than $3 billion, which means that there is possibility of cooperation and work with that brother country.
Nyusi added: “Here we export cotton; we are in the sugar project very well-known and very successful, but we also have projects in the poultry industry. Today we are looking at new areas of cooperation such as agro-processing, textile industry, animal production and tourism”.
The Mauritian prime minister also justified the creation of the joint commission by the existence of more than 20 memoranda of understanding and agreements between the two countries, covering areas such as agriculture, investments, information and communication technologies, among others.
At the end of the official negotiations, both countries initialed two new cooperation agreements in the areas of tourism and environment and a memorandum of understanding between the Mozambique Investment and Export Promotion Agency (APIEX) and the Council for Economic Development.
At the subsequent media conference, the two leaders said that a number of issues of common concern had been reviewed, beginning with bilateral political and social ties, issues relating to the Southern African Development Community (SADC) and other
issues of continental and global relevance.