Luanda, ANGOLA, May 14 - The Foreign Affairs minister, Manuel Augusto, on Friday said the decision taken by the Court of Appeal of Lisbon, Portugal, to transfer to Angola the process of the lawsuit against the former Angolan vice president of the Republic, Manuel Domingos Vicente, responds to a demand manifested by the Angolan government. ,

The top diplomat, who was speaking in a phone call interview to Angolan Public Television (TPA), added that with this step given the relation between the two countries is restored to its normal course.

To him, the content of the agreement in its main disposition meets what

the Angolan government always had in perspective.

According to the diplomat, Angola only requested the transfer of the process, which involved the former Angolan vice president to be transferred to its judicial authorities.

Manuel Vicente was accused in Portugal of crime of active corruption to a public magistrate, Orlando Figueira, who now trialed separately.

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