CPLP: Extraordinary council to add economic cooperation to community’s statutes

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CPLP: Extraordinary council to add economic cooperation to community’s statutes

6:52 CAT | 31 Jan 2023

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The foreign ministers of members the Community of Portuguese-Language Countries (CPLP) are due to hold an extraordinary Council of Ministers of the organisation on 28 and 29 March in Luanda, to approve the addition of economic cooperation to its statutes.

According to an official source in the community, “the main aim of the extraordinary meeting of foreign … ministers is to approve the proposal to revise the statutes of the CPLP,” so that they will “accommodate economic cooperation” as the fourth pillar of the organisation’s activities, at the proposal of Angola, which currently holds the rotating presidency.

This change was among the priorities and proposals set out by Angola’s head of state, João Lourenço, who is now also acting president of the CPLP for Angola’s two-year term overseeing the organisation.

The dates in March for the extraordinary Council of Ministers were proposed by the Angolan presidency at the last meeting of the CPLP’s Permanent Consultation Committee, the usual monthly gathering in Lisbon of ambassadors representing the nine member states at the CPLP, according to an official source, who said that some other issues might also go to this meeting, without specifying any.

At the last summit of heads of state and government, held on 17 July 2021 in Luanda, at which Angola took over the CPLP presidency, Lourenço announced as an objective of Angola’s presidency the creation of a fourth pillar, that of economic and business cooperation.

The CPLP currently has three pillars of action, or objectives, which it has had since its creation in 1996 and which are defined in its statutes: political and diplomatic consultation between its members in matters of international relations, cooperation in all areas, and the materialisation of projects to promote and spread the Portuguese language.

The nine member states of the CPLP are Angola, Brazil, Cabo Verde, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, Portugal, Sao Tome and Principe and Timor-Leste.

Source: Lusa