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Guinea-Bissau PR ratifies CPLP mobility agreement

The President of Guinea-Bissau, Umaro Sissoco Embaló, this Tuesday ratified the mobility agreement of the Community of Portuguese Language Countries (CPLP), which was approved by parliament on Friday, announced the presidency.

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"The mobility agreement between the Member States of the Community of Portuguese Language Countries (CPLP) is ratified, approved by resolution 17/2021 of the National People's Assembly", says the Guinean Presidency, in an informative note.

On Friday, the Guinea-Bissau parliament approved the CPLP mobility agreement with the favorable vote of the 90 deputies present in the parliament.

Guinea-Bissau will now have to hand over the instruments of ratification of the agreement to the CPLP executive secretariat, and only then will it enter into force.

With the entry into force, only diplomatic, official, special and service passports will be exempt from visa requirements. The remaining forms of granting visas, such as those allocated to common passports, will be negotiated between the Member States through bilateral agreements.

The mobility agreement was signed in Luanda, on July 17, at the XIII Conference of Heads of State and Government of the CPLP, in which Angola assumed the presidency of the organization until 2023.

The mobility agreement, according to the CPLP, will enter into force on January 1st only for Portugal, Cape Verde and São Tomé and Príncipe, which have already delivered the respective instruments of ratification to the organization's executive secretariat.

The agreement does not mean the facilitation of short-stay visas: Schengen or tourist visas will continue to be necessary, the organization explained.

The agreement defines that CPLP mobility covers holders of diplomatic, official, special and service passports and ordinary passports.

The issue of facilitating circulation has been debated at the CPLP for about two decades, but it received greater impetus with a more concrete proposal presented by Portugal at the summit in Brasilia, in 2016, and became the priority of the rotating presidency of the organization of Cape Verde, from 2018 to 2021.

Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Equatorial Guinea, Mozambique, Portugal, São Tomé and Príncipe and East Timor are the nine member states of CPLP, an organization that celebrates its 25th anniversary this year.

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