Africa-Press – Angola. Angola’s commitment to consolidating the Parliamentary Assembly of the Community of Portuguese Speaking Countries (AP-CPLP) was praised, this Monday, in Luanda, by the president of the organization’s 1st Policy and Citizenship Commission, Porfírio Silva.
Speaking to the press, at the end of a courtesy meeting with the president of the National Assembly, Carolina Cerqueira, which preceded the opening of the 1st Commission meeting, the Portuguese parliamentarian said that Angola’s contribution, over the years, has allowed the institutional advancement of the community’s Parliamentary Assembly.
“We are grateful for the commitment, over the years, of the Angolan Parliament to the work of the AP-CPLP, very specifically for having managed to achieve an important institutional advance in the consolidation of the institution, for the first time, we have the permanent secretary with us. It was work carried out by all of us, but it was Angola that launched the idea and led the way”, he highlighted.
This fact, he said, will guarantee better operationalization and more “strength” for the institution, contributing to the improvement of its organization.
Meanwhile, when speaking at the opening of the meeting of the 1st Politics and Citizenship Commission, the executive secretary of the CPLP, Zacarias da Costa, welcomed the progress made in the organization, namely the change in its statutes, as well as the regulation of the permanent secretariat. , approved in July 2023, in Malabo (Equatorial Guinea).
On the occasion, the person in charge, who spoke via video conference, reiterated the availability of the CPLP executive secretariat to support the Parliamentary Assembly, in favor of the institution’s development.
For his part, the third vice-president of the National Assembly, Raúl Lima, defended the need for member countries to continue working to find mechanisms for political, economic, social and security stability.
According to the parliamentarian, the year 2024 presents enormous challenges to the international community and particularly to the CPLP countries, which encourage deputies to seek solutions to mitigate the problems that afflict the communities.
“It is in this sense that we understand that political articulation between us becomes necessary, taking into account that it is from this that institutions are strengthened in order to guarantee peace, justice and well-being of the populations. We have to be interpreters of the times we live in and the designs of the democratic State and the rule of law that support our constitutions,” she added.
Monday and Tuesday, Portuguese-speaking deputies will address, among other topics, the political-parliamentary situation in the different Member States, as well as the work on installing, in Luanda, the organization’s permanent secretariat.
The Parliamentary Assembly was established by the XII Council of Ministers of the CPLP, in November 2007, in Lisbon (Portugal), and brings together the parliaments of Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Equatorial Guinea, Mozambique, Portugal, São Tomé and Príncipe and East Timor.
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