"The pace of discussions is not as rushed as we all want", said Zacarias da Costa, referring that the "issue of document security" is under debate at the moment.
The official was speaking to the media this Wednesday, after a meeting with the Mozambican head of state at the Presidency, in Maputo.
According to Zacarias da Costa, debates on the mobility agreement in the CPLP also depend on the speed, specificity and commitments of each member country, in addition to financial and operational challenges and the shortage of human resources.
The CPLP executive secretary suggests looking at the "great challenge" together, aiming to identify the problems of each of the community's countries, to ensure that its documents are "accepted and reliable in the other Member States".
"We all understand that the implementation and operationalization of the agreements is not easy, it obviously requires human and financial resources [...] but, the most important thing is the awareness that we all have to move forward, perhaps with a little more haste to also meet the expectations of our citizens", said the executive secretary.
The Mobility Agreement establishes a "cooperation framework" between all Member States in a "flexible and variable" way and, in practice, covers any citizen.
States are offered a range of solutions that allow them to assume "commitments resulting from mobility in a progressive way and with different levels of integration", taking into account their own internal specificities, in their political, social and administrative dimension.
The CPLP comprises Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Equatorial Guinea, Mozambique, Portugal, São Tomé and Príncipe and East Timor.
