CPLP: Foreign ministers meet 26 March to approve mobility agreement

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CPLP: Foreign ministers meet 26 March to approve mobility agreement

11:16 CAT | 17 Mar 2021

File photo: Folha de Maputo

The heads of diplomacy of the CPLP will meet on 26 March, by video conference, to approve the draft mobility agreement within the organisation, the last step before the Luanda summit, it said on Tuesday.

According to the announcement made by the Cape Verdean foreign minister, Rui Figueiredo Soares, this ministerial meeting is intended to approve the draft agreement of the Cape Verdean presidency of the Community of Portuguese Language Countries (CPLP), already validated at the technical level, in February, by all member states.

“This meeting will be important for us to prepare and take the last step before the summit that will take place in Luanda next July,” he said.

The Cape Verdean president said in February that he hopes to see the draft Convention on Mobility approved by the organisation’s cabinet meeting this month.

Jorge Carlos Fonseca recalled that at the 12th Summit of Heads of State and Government of the organisation, held on the island of Sal in July 2018, which marked the beginning of the Cape Verdean presidency, agreed to a very ambitious commitment to mobility as an essential instrument in the progressive transformation of the CPLP into a true community of peoples and citizens.

He recalled that since then the main stages outlined have already been fulfilled and that the process has entered the final phase, after the holding of three cabinet meeting (holders of foreign affairs ministries of each country), two meetings of ministers of interior and internal administration, a meeting of ministers of justice and six sessions of the Joint Technical Meeting.

“We hope that at the end of next March the project will be endorsed by the cabinet meeting of the CPLP, so that in July, in the city of Luanda [when Angola will assume the presidency of the organization], it will be submitted for approval by the heads of state and government,” he said.

At stake in this meeting of the technical committee were three points of divergence between the Portuguese-language countries. Two of them – the certification of academic and professional orders and the contributions of citizens to Social Security – will be determined by the internal regulations of the states.

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

Source: Lusa