Jorge Carlos Fonseca, who started this Monday an official three-day visit to Guinea-Bissau, spoke to journalists and answered a question in his capacity as acting president of the CPLP.
The acting president of the CPLP said that Cape Verde elected "Culture, People, the Oceans" as the motto of its rotating presidency, and that after hard work the results achieved are already being praised by leaders of the organization.
Jorge Carlos Fonseca stated that Cape Verde has bet on the issue of citizen mobility as the objective of its presidency and already has an elaborate agreement and, almost, accepted in the community.
"At the moment there is an agreement accepted by the ministers of Internal Administration, ministers of External Relations of the nine countries of the CPLP and we have an agreement ready for, God willing, in July, in Luanda, the heads of state to approve it definitively and sign the mobility agreement within the CPLP," said Jorge Carlos Fonseca.
The Cape Verdean leader stressed that "even if it were only that" his country would consider it to have achieved "a great victory," since he himself, as an academic, has always maintained that without the mobility of citizens the CPLP will not exist.
"Recently, the executive secretary, occupied by Portugal, gave great praise to the presidency of Cape Verde," said Jorge Carlos Fonseca.
The CPLP includes nine member states: Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Equatorial Guinea, Mozambique, Portugal, São Tomé and Príncipe and Timor-Leste.
