According to the document, published on the organization's website, the heads of CPLP diplomacy, meeting in Luanda last Friday, approved the budgets of the executive secretariat and the International Institute of the Portuguese Language (IILP).
The 2023 budget, in the amount of €2,734,731.15, will be financed through contributions from the nine Member States.
Brazil (768,453.68 euros), Portugal (590,735.89 euros) and Angola (589,291.90 euros) are the countries that make the largest contribution in terms of value to that budget.
Mozambique's quota is 252,233.70 euros, Equatorial Guinea and Timor-Leste pay, respectively, 204,295.99 euros, while Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau and São Tomé and Príncipe each pay 41,808.00 euros.
This year, the budget of the executive secretariat is precisely 2.7 million euros, which also represents zero growth compared to recent years, according to a resolution approved at the Summit of Heads of State and Government, which took place on 17 July 2021, in Luanda.
According to the resolution approved at the XIII Conference of Heads of State and Government of the CPLP, the operating budget of the organization's Executive Secretariat for the year 2022 would be 2,734,731.15 euros, and the quotas of each country were also the same .
As for the IILP budget, which also includes contributions from the nine Member States, next year it will be 309,953.89 euros, according to another resolution released by the CPLP.
The contributions are: Brazil (96,853.73 euros); Portugal (74,280.03 euros), Angola (48,426.95 euros); Mozambique and Cape Verde (25,827.65 euros each) and Guinea-Bissau, Equatorial Guinea, São Tomé and Príncipe and Timor-Leste (9,684.47 euros each).
This Council of Ministers also approved a resolution on Equatorial Guinea, which assesses the evolution of the integration process in that country, which is the youngest member state of the CPLP (since 2014).
According to this document, the executive secretariat was mandated to send a new mission to assess the implementation of the Support Program for the Integration of Equatorial Guinea (2020-2022) (PAIGE), by the end of this year.
The heads of diplomacy of the CPLP Member States also decided to assign, at this meeting, the category of consultative observer of the CPLP to the following entities: Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, Associação Lusophone de Direito da Saúde (ALDIS), Fundação Observatório do Livro e da Reading (FOLL) and Autonomous University of Lisbon "Luís de Camões" (UAL).
