Mobility agreement to be signed in Luanda will give rise to a ‘CPLP of people’ – Sao Tome PM

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Mobility agreement to be signed in Luanda will give rise to a ‘CPLP of people’ – Sao Tome PM

9:14 CAT | 15 Jul 2021

File photo: Lusa

The prime minister of São Tomé said on Wednesday that the mobility agreement to be signed at the summit of the Community of Portuguese-language Countries (CPLP) in Luanda “will not be a perfect agreement,” but will allow us to move “to a CPLP of people”.

“Mobility will be the backdrop [of the summit] for businesspeople to meet, for young people to meet, for us to move from this institutional, formal CPLP to a CPLP of people with a great space for mobility,” said Jorge Bom Jesus, in Luanda.

The prime minister of Sao Tome and Principe considers the agreement to be “a general hat,” which will be applied later depending on the specifics of each country.

He noted that the 13th Luanda Summit, which will take place on Friday and Saturday will allow for “sharing of physical spaces to address general aspects and more specific issues in times of recovery and resilience,” after the most difficult periods of the pandemic.

“We have to join forces to find new solutions to old structural problems, particularly from an economic point of view”.

“The communities are precisely for us to join forces and face the problems because they are common, which is why the solutions also have to be common,” he added.

The minister explained that he will also take to the summit his experience in fighting the pandemic.

“We have the situation stabilised, we are already in the third vaccination process and these experiences will be shared,” said Jorge Bom Jesus.

He said that the country “will participate fully” in the summit, on the sidelines of which there will be bilateral meetings to discuss cooperation.

“We have already scheduled some with some countries to see more specific issues with Angola, a country with which we share several economic dossiers, debt, investments in the areas of fuel and other strategic investments”.

Angola will officially take over the rotating presidency of the CPLP during the summit, succeeding Cabo Verde, whose mandate was extended for another year at the request of the Angolan government due to the pandemic.

The motto of Angola’s presidency is “Building and Strengthening a Common and Sustainable Future.

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

Source: Lusa