Portugal: Parliament to host XI CPLP parliamentary assembly on Monday, Tuesday

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Portugal: Parliament to host XI CPLP parliamentary assembly on Monday, Tuesday

10:33 CAT | 24 Oct 2022

FILE - For illustration purposes only. [File photo: Lusa]

The Portuguese parliament will host the 11th Parliamentary Assembly of the Community of Portuguese Language Countries (CPLP), between Monday and Tuesday, with this edition’s central theme the issue of free movement of goods and services.

As well as the speaker of the Portuguese parliament, Augusto Santos Silva, the speakers of the parliaments of Angola, Carolina Cerqueira, of Cabo Verde, Austelino Correia, of Guinea Bissau, Cipriano Cassamá, of Sao Tome and Principe, Delfim Santiago das Neves, and of Timor Leste, Aniceto Longuinhos Guterres Lopes, will be present in Lisbon for the CPLP Parliamentary Assembly. According to the Portuguese Parliament, Equatorial Guinea and Mozambique will be represented by a parliamentary delegation.

The Parliamentary Assembly of the CPLP was set up in 2007, bringing together representatives from all the parliaments of the organisation and aims to “strengthen solidarity and cooperation,” and is made up of democratically elected members appointed by national parliaments.

According to a note from the Portuguese Parliament, “it also aims to contribute to peace and to the strengthening of democracy and its representative institutions, consolidate good governance and the rule of law, promote human rights, examine issues of common interest and maintain cooperation at cultural, educational, economic, scientific, technological and environmental levels and combat all forms of discrimination.

On Monday, work begins in the Portuguese Parliament, at 09:00, in committee, with themes dedicated to the following issues: Policy, strategy, legislation, citizenship and movement; Economy, environment and cooperation; and Language, education, science and culture.

At 10:30, the “networks” of women parliamentarians and young parliamentarians will meet. Then, 30 minutes later, Augusto Santos Silva will meet with the speakers of the national parliaments or heads of the delegations of the member states, followed by an institutional photograph on the main steps of the Portuguese Parliament.

Also on Monday, in the afternoon, at 14:30, there will be a conference of the speakers of the parliaments and, at 15:00, the solemn opening session will begin in the Senate Room. The session will include a welcome address by Augusto Santos Silva and speeches by Portugal’s minister of foreign affairs, João Gomes Cravinho, the executive secretary of the CPLP, Zacarias da Costa, and the speaker of the Parliamentary Assembly of the CPLP and speaker of Guinea-Bissau’s Parliament, Cipriano Cassamá.

On Tuesday, the Parliamentary Assembly meets in plenary session starting at 09:30, with speeches by the speakers of the national parliaments or representatives on the theme of free movement of goods and services in the CPLP region.

At 11:30, a state of play will be made on the ratification and implementation of the agreement on mobility in the CPLP between the different member states.

In the afternoon, according to the program, “information on the electoral processes in the member states of the CPLP” will be transmitted, followed by the approval of the final communiqué of the assembly and the closing session.

In this closing session, in the Senate Room, Augusto Santos Silva and the speaker of the Parliamentary Assembly of the CPLP and the parliament of Guinea-Bissau, Cipriano Cassamá, will make speeches.

Source: Lusa