President Nyusi says CPLP “transcends linguistic foundations”

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President Nyusi says CPLP “transcends linguistic foundations”

3:41 CAT | 18 Jul 2016

Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi said on Sunday that the Community of Portuguese-Speaking Countries (CPLP) had in the past 20 years transcended its “essentially historical and linguistic basis”, and added that he expected the organisation to rise to “new heights”.

In a message released on the 20th anniversary of the CPLP’s foundation on July 17, President Nyusi said he felt that the organisation was capable of achieving “peace, progress and socio-cultural well-being” for its people, and that it satisfactorily mobilized the determination and commitment of the member states in overcoming new challenges.

The message, addressed to Executive Secretary of CPLP Murade Murargy, goes on to say that the organisation’s achievements result from “hard and determined work” and “a strong desire to give life to the values and principles” that guided its creation.

“United by a shared language and past and a common vision of the future, we have made our friendship and solidarity an instrument of political and diplomatic coordination for our planned objectives,” the statement reads.

With nine member states on four continents, the community, President Nyusi remarks, had further managed to overcome its geographical discontinuity and to consolidate itself as “an organisation with a voice in the concert of nations”.

The CPLP was founded in Lisbon on 17 July 1996 by Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, Portugal and Sao Tome and Principe, and later joined by East Timor in 2002 and Equatorial Guinea in 2014 .

Source: Lusa