Africa-Press – Angola. The Minister of Culture and Tourism, Filipe Zau, this Friday, in Luanda, appealed to the CPLP member states to promote cooperation between the Portuguese language and national languages, for its enhancement and scientific research.
Speaking at the opening of the 2nd Extraordinary Meeting of Ministers of Culture of the Community of Portuguese Speaking Countries (CPLP), the official said that obtaining bilingualism in each of the member states will facilitate a greater scope of the organization’s mission.
Before the table, he proposed to the heads of the International Institute of the Portuguese Language (IILP), to the Executive Secretariat of the CPLP and to the focal points, in order to design a strategy for the implementation of a project that takes this aim into account.
Filipe Zau defended a greater promotion and dissemination of the Portuguese language, as a second language, which involves recognizing the existence of other cultures and languages of coexistence.
He stated that the community has culture as an important identity reference, without losing the sense of otherness in relation to the feeling of cultural belonging of other peoples, but also as a means of promoting creative industries, aiming at employability, income generation and the eradication of poverty.
In this sense, he referred that the II Extraordinary Meeting will provide an opportunity to check the degree of implementation of the action plan, to enhance the exchange.
During his speech, the minister spoke of the need to encourage composers from the countries to participate, individually or collectively, in a public competition, which aims to create the official music of the CPLP, as guiding principles and objectives of the community.
For him, the promotion of measures that facilitate the circulation of citizens of the member states in the space of the CPLP will be a fundamental step for the beginning of a project of statute of the artist of the community and the promotion of the organization’s book and reading.
He observed that “behind culture and the creative arts comes everything else, including intercultural education, a catalyst for coexistence and mutual respect between people of different cultures, and sustainable tourism as a source of economic diversification”.
The one-day meeting evaluated the degree of implementation of the CPLP Multilateral Cultural Cooperation Action Plan (2022-2024) and the “Operationalization of the Strategic Plan (2022-2026)”.
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