Carlos Moedas defined the three priorities as the central axis of his mandate for the 2022-2024 biennium at the head of the Executive Committee of the Union of Portuguese-Speaking Capital Cities (UCCLA), approved this Thursday at the organization's XXXVIII General Assembly.
"The priorities are thus determined. Our priorities are really those that we must have clear for this mandate and that I ask for your support. Priorities that are decisive for the future in this world of uncertainty and instability", said Carlos Moedas.
The new chairman of the Executive Committee stressed that UCCLA "has always been a project of cooperation and coexistence". "A pioneering project in cooperation and coexistence between our peoples, a pioneering project of which Lisbon is proud today to assume the rotating Presidency", he added.
UCCLA, defined Carlos Moedas, "is more than a platform for development cooperation and the application of these public policies", considering that the organization is "a union of languages that was a pioneer in these languages, in this culture that is ours, pioneer in the creation of the CPLP [Community of Portuguese-Speaking Countries] which unites our countries in a wider platform".
"Our vocation obliges us to also play an active and participatory role in the CPLP. And, therefore, the third priority that I would like to assume, in the face of voice, is a priority for all of us: a UCCLA that influences action within the framework of CPLP, which respects the strategic vision of the Community, but is attentive to its implementation", he added.
Carlos Moedas also highlighted in his speech the participation of the Lisbon Chamber, since May, in Dili, in a "major project to strengthen urban governance, social inclusion, entrepreneurship, supported by the European Union".
This project, presented by UCCLA to the European Union, which finances it, and which is called "Partnership for the Strengthening of Urban Governance, Social Inclusion and Promotion of Entrepreneurship", has a time horizon of three years.
Created on June 28, 1985, UCCLA was the practical expression of a dream of the then Mayor of Lisbon, Nuno Krus Abecassis, with the signing of the founding act of the Union of Luso-Afro-America-Asian Capital Cities, by the cities of Bissau, Lisbon, Luanda, Macau, Maputo, Praia, Rio de Janeiro and São Tomé/Água Grande.
The organization currently has 29 effective cities, and the entry of Icolo and Bengo (Angola), Fortaleza (Brazil), Fundão (Portugal) and Baucau, Ermera and Viqueque (Timor-Leste) was formalized at the General Assembly held in Lisbon.
