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"There will hardly be the conditions" to hold CPLP summit in September, admits executive secretary

The Executive Secretary of the Community of Portuguese Speaking Countries (CPLP) admitted this Tuesday that, because of the pandemic, "hardly" there will be conditions for the organization's summit of heads of state and government, scheduled for September in Luanda.

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In this scenario, "we will have to reprogram all activities and meetings. For this reason, I think that, at this moment, the conditions for holding the summit in early September in Luanda will hardly be met," said Ambassador Francisco Ribeiro Telles in a statement to Lusa, stressing, however, that "this is an assessment that will have to be made by all member states of the CPLP.

The "coronavirus has reached the full agenda of the CPLP. We had a number of meetings scheduled for March and April, including the joint meeting of the Ministers of Economy, Trade and Finance and also the Investment Agencies of CPLP countries that had to be cancelled," he explained.

These meetings had the objective of "preparing the summit of Heads of State, in Luanda, next September, and paving the way for the constitution of an economic pillar" within the organization.

At the same time, and also because of the pandemic, the CPLP had to postpone, without a new date, the extraordinary meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers, scheduled for this month in Cape Verde, whose objective was to close "the important issue of mobility," a flag of Cape Verde, a country that currently has the rotating presidency of the organization, said Ribeiro Telles.

This was another essential meeting, so that, in this way, the proposal for the free movement of people within the CPLP area could be presented and voted on by the Presidents [of the member states] at the beginning of September' in Angola, the very country that at the summit would assume the presidency of the organisation, the diplomat said.

In addition to these, another meeting was scheduled for the end of April with the 19 observer countries associated with the CPLP to discuss the proposal to make them partners of the organization in future cooperation projects. Another dossier to be taken to the summit of heads of state in Luanda.

But this meeting also had to be cancelled, Ribeiro Telles explained.

On January 28, Lusa announced that the summit of heads of state and government of Member States of the Community of Portuguese Speaking Countries (CPLP), taking place this year in Luanda, was scheduled for September.

Initially scheduled, as usual, for July - the month in which the Portuguese-speaking organization celebrates its anniversary - the summit of heads of state and government was eventually scheduled for "2 and 3 September," according to "a proposal from Angola in that sense," said at the time and ambassador Francisco Ribeiro Telles.

The diplomat recalled at the time that there had already been other summits of heads of state and government of the CPLP that did not take place in July and stressed that it was "calendar and logistical reasons" that dictated this postponement, rejecting any political reason.

The member states of the organization are Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Equatorial Guinea, Mozambique, Portugal, São Tomé and Príncipe and Timor-Leste.

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