CPLP: Ambassadors support Canada as observer country

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CPLP: Ambassadors support Canada as observer country

9:52 CAT | 21 Jul 2020

[File photo: Lusa]

The representatives of the member states of the Community of Portuguese-language Countries (CPLP) on Thursday endorsed Canada’s application to become an associate observer country of the organisation.

On Thursday we gave the go-ahead to Canada’s candidacy as an associate observer country, the ambassador of Cabo Verde in Lisbon, a member state that has the organisation’s rotating presidency until July next year, told Lusa.

According to Eurico Monteiro, who was speaking after a meeting of the CPLP Permanent Consultative Committee, in which all the ambassadors of the organisation’s member states sit, the opinion was unanimous.

Canada handed in its application to become a CPLP observer country in early June, the organisation’s executive secretary told Lusa.

Canada joins 11 other states and international organisations that are working on their processes so that they can formalise their membership, with the status of associated observer, at the next meeting of heads of state and government, to be held in Luanda, Angola, in July next year, during which these applications should be analysed.

Representatives of the CPLP member states have also given their endorsement to the application processes of India and Ireland for associate observers.

In all, 12 applications will go to the next CPLP summit: United States of America, Spain, India, Ireland, Canada, Greece, Ivory Coast, Peru, Qatar, Romania, the European Public Law Organisation (EPLO) and the Ibero-American General Secretariat (SEGIB).

Currently, the CPLP has 18 associated observer countries and one organisation, the OEI – Organisation of Ibero-American States.

States wishing to acquire associate observer status have to share the guiding principles of the CPLP, namely the promotion of democratic practices, good governance and respect for human rights, and pursue, through their government programmes, objectives identical to those of the CPLP, even if, at the outset, they do not meet the necessary conditions to be full members of that organisation, according to the official website of that community.

The associated observers may participate, without the right to vote, in the summits and the cabinet meeting and have access to the corresponding non-confidential documentation, and may also submit communications provided they are duly authorized to do so. In addition, they may be invited to meetings of a technical nature.

However, any member state of the CPLP may, if it deems it appropriate, request that a meeting take place without the participation of observers.

CPLP member states are Angola, Brazil, Cabo Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Equatorial Guinea, Mozambique, Portugal, Sao Tome and Principe and East Timor.

Source: Lusa