Africa-Press – Angola. Téte António, acting president of the Council of Ministers of the Community of Portuguese-Speaking Countries (CPLP), defended, Friday (03), in Luanda, an increase in economic and business partnerships with reciprocal and balanced advantages that lead to a comprehensive and sustainable approach to the markets of the Member States, with repercussions on the quality of life of the populations.
Speaking at the XXVII Ordinary Meeting of the CPLP Council of Ministers, he said that in recent months Angola has held meetings of joint cooperation commissions with several countries in the community, including Brazil, Equatorial Guinea and São Tomé and Príncipe, to cement economic growth, encourage dialogue and increasingly stimulate interaction between peoples.
Angola hopes that this cooperation model can contribute to the achievement of the African Union’s Agenda 2063 and the United Nations development objectives, in the implementation to promote greater equality of opportunities for the insertion of women in society and the increase of the intervention of the youth in the community space of the CPLP, through the multiform exchange and reciprocal advantages, according to Téte António.
He defended greater cooperation between Member States in the search for common solutions based on the principle of multilateralism, given the multiple and increasingly complex challenges in the world, with emphasis on terrorism and violent extremism, climate change and the pandemic. of Covid-19, among others.
“Angola remains engaged in the prevention, management and resolution of conflicts in Africa, seeking to contribute to peaceful solutions that promote mediation and political dialogue, as fundamental bases for the development of a national agenda of democracy and the rule of law on the continent”, said the president of the CPLP Council of Ministers, Téte António.
He noted that since Angola assumed the presidency of the CPLP for the biennium 2021-2023, under the motto “build and strengthen a common and sustainable future”, it has defended a political-diplomatic agenda based on the implementation of the fourth general principle of the CPLP, that of Economic Cooperation.
He stressed that this cooperation is part of the spirit of the New Strategic Vision of the CPLP 2016-2026, which is in line with Agenda 2063, of the African Union and the Agenda 2030 of the United Nations, which constitute foundations for the sustainable development of countries by promoting, among other things, economic and business cooperation.
“We advocate the holding of an Extraordinary Council of Ministers in December of the current year, in São Tomé and Príncipe, which will aim to analyze the amendment of the CPLP statutes to conform them with the inclusion of the fourth general objective, that of Economic Cooperation ”, he announced.
He added that the Angolan presidency has paid particular attention to community election observation missions in the Member States, as has recently happened in the Republic of Timor-Leste, as well as actively assisting the Support Program for the Integration of Equatorial Guinea into the CPLP (2021-2022), leading to the full integration of this “sister country” in the organization.
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