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Portuguese MFA highlights "enormous potential" of future mobility in the CPLP

The head of Portuguese diplomacy highlighted Tuesday the "enormous potential" for CPLP member states when the document is approved at the summit of the Lusophone organization, scheduled for Luanda on July 16 and 17.

: Global Imagens
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"We want to facilitate the circulation between people from the Community of Portuguese Language Countries (CPLP). In the case of Portugal, in terms of short-stay visas, it is the Schengen legislation that applies. But in terms of national visas, this means a very significant facilitation of movement," said Augusto Santos Silva.

Santos Silva was speaking to the Lusa agency at the end of a hearing in the Parliamentary Commission of Foreign Affairs and Portuguese Communities, in which he also expressed the expectation that Portugal would be one of the first countries to ratify the Framework Convention for Mobility.

"My expectation is that Portugal will be one of the first countries to ratify this convention, especially since it results from a proposal submitted in 2017 by Portugal and Cape Verde," Santos Silva told Lusa, after, at the Commission, he expressed the desire that the document be approved and ratified in the first legislative session of 2021/22.

"It creates conditions for mobility and facilitates it in visas for work, study and academic research among others. There are 260 million speakers and it is expected to double by the end of the century. There is a huge potential with this mobility regime with the end of visas in these sectors," added the Portuguese Foreign Minister.

The 13th CPLP Summit of Heads of State and Government will be held in Luanda in July and will mark the end of the Cape Verdean Presidency of the Lusophone organization (extended for another year due to the covid-19 pandemic), passing into the hands of Angola.

The summit will also mark the 25th anniversary of the founding of the CPLP, which was created on July 17, 1996 and currently includes Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Equatorial Guinea, Mozambique, Portugal, Sao Tome and Principe, and Timor-Leste.

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