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Portuguese approved as the official language of the CPLP Courts of Auditors

Portuguese was approved this Thursday as the official language of the CPLP audit courts and will be proposed to have the same role in the world organization of these bodies, as decided at a meeting in Lisbon.

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The XXI General Assembly of the organization of the Supreme Audit Institutions (ISC) of the Community of Portuguese Language Countries (CPLP) was the first present since the beginning of the pandemic and brought together in Lisbon all representatives of the audit courts of the community and of Macau, as an observer.

At the end of the meeting, the secretary general of the CPLP ISC, Walton Alencar Rodrigues, told the Lusa agency that the dimension of Portuguese in the world is such that it justifies being the official language of the organization, in addition to facilitating the work of the courts of accounts and access to documents to institutions in the various Portuguese-speaking countries of the community.

"Portuguese is a very rich language that deserves to be spread and spread throughout the world. In addition, there is a natural request from African countries and the Portuguese-speaking world to make Portuguese the official language of the organization, which will allow all texts that are approved by the organization to be in Portuguese, without the need for translation", he referred.

Gonçalo Leitão, spokesman for the Angolan Court of Auditors, told Lusa that one of the "great challenges" of these organizations is access to the contents produced, which could be much easier if they are in Portuguese.

"It will be a way of putting the Portuguese-speaking countries in Africa on an equal footing", he said.

In Angola, he said, one of the great challenges of the Court of Auditors has been to strengthen the institution's communication policy, in order to combat the "poor dissemination" of the work produced.

At this Thursday's meeting of the CPLP SAI, a proposal was also approved for Portuguese to be the official language of the World Organization of Courts of Auditors (Intosai), which brings together all audit courts in the world and whose official languages ​​are English, French, Spanish, German and Arabic.

This proposal will be debated at the meeting to be held next year, when Brazil, which currently holds the vice-presidency of Intosai, will assume the presidency of the organization.

For the president of the Portuguese Court of Auditors, host of the meeting, this officialization of Portuguese in the world organization is a natural evolution, since it is an "increasingly stronger language in the world".

"At Intosai it was already recognized as a working language, but we want it to be an official language. This means that all documentation, all meetings of the world organization are now translated and interpreted in Portuguese, with the benefit of all Portuguese-speaking countries," he said.

For José Tavares, the measure approved this Thursday, at the CPLP level, will "make it much easier and save resources for the institutions, the audit courts" of the community.

The meeting debated "the role that citizens expect from the audit courts" which, according to José Tavares, involves the fulfillment of the 2030 agenda and its 16 sustainable development goals in areas as wide-ranging as education, environment, gender equality, combating poverty.

"It's up to the court of auditors to verify that each of our people is managing to develop the necessary measures to achieve these goals," he said.

During the meeting, many Portuguese-speaking countries expressed their concern about the need to control public works, in addition to their permanent concern about combating fraud and corruption.

José Tavares underlined the importance of "internal strengthening" of institutions and "training of auditors", announcing that Portugal will host, next year, the first congress of young auditors from each of the organization's countries.

As an example of the possibilities of cooperation between the institutions of the various countries, he mentioned that the CPLP accounts, which for years were audited by private auditing companies, are now audited by the audit courts of the countries of the community.

Every year, two courts of auditors from two CPLP countries take on this task, free of charge, which currently falls to the institutions of Portugal and São Tomé and Príncipe.

A worldwide audit is also being prepared, with the participation of the Courts of Auditors of the countries that make up Intosai, which should take place in 2023, and which will have the environment as its theme, announced José Tavares.

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