Ambassador Lisa Bandari, who is visiting the Azores, said on Monday on Terceira Island that the United Kingdom is willing to support the Lajes Base Interpretive Center.
The diplomat, who has held the post since January of this year, met in Angra do Heroísmo with the Vice-President of the Regional Government, Artur Lima, who oversees the Azores’ external relations. The visit to the archipelago will last three days.
At the end of the meeting, Artur Lima told journalists that “the Lajes Base Interpretive Center is a unique project” and that “it can strengthen the link with the United Kingdom.”
He added that “the United Kingdom played a decisive role in the creation of the Lajes Base” and said he had asked the diplomat for “collaboration, namely the supply of documents.”
One of the ideas that Artur Lima put to the ambassador related to the roles of the future Lajes Base Interpretive Center was “Explaining to current generations of British people what their grandparents did here. “

COOPERATION
At the end of the meeting with Artur Lima, Lisa Bandari said that she wanted to identify areas in which the relationship between the Azores and the United Kingdom could be strengthened.
The diplomat highlighted areas of possible collaboration in scientific research and innovation and clean energy, “where the Azores have a lot of potential and the UK has a lot of experience.”
Lisa Bandari wants to “establish concrete collaborations in scientific research and private investment.”
At the meeting, Artur Lima said that creating the Lajes Base with the British presence was “a contribution to peace.”

in Diário Insular-José Lourenço, director

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