Africa-Press – Angola. Angola has prepared the conditions to host the seat of the Permanent Secretariat of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Community of Portuguese Speaking Countries (AP-CPLP), at the Palace of the National Assembly, in Luanda.
The information was provided on Wednesday (01) by the president of the National Monitoring Group for Portuguese-Speaking Countries, Virgílio de Fontes Pereira, at the end of the meeting with the group of ambassadors from the organization’s member states.
The deputy gave a positive assessment of the process of installing the headquarters of the Permanent Secretariat of the AP-CPLP, in Luanda. He recalled that, three years ago, the process was at an impasse, due to some lack of rapport between the various presidencies that have been succeeding, since 2014 and 2016.
Angola, he said, has put a lot of effort into the process of installing and operating the Permanent Secretariat having, in 2019, defined four priority objectives. One of them concerns ensuring that the facilities for the Permanent Secretariat could be available at the Palace of the National Assembly.
Virgílio de Fontes Pereira assured that the facilities are available and were visited yesterday by the delegation of the CPLP executive secretary, Zacarias da Costa, who is in Luanda for work.
The second objective, he said, was to create organizational conditions so that, as soon as the installation of the Permanent Secretariat was given the green light, with the appointment of the secretary, the institution could have a basic work done so that there are no surprises at the start.
Virgílio de Fontes Pereira pointed out that this process was carried out through the constitution of an installation commission, which works in the premises of the future Permanent Secretariat, whose mission is to take care of all the organizational aspects. He also informed that the impasse regarding the modality of contribution of member countries to the organization’s financing was also unblocked.
In this regard, he explained that a solution had been found in the sense that the contribution would be made according to the GDP of each member country.
The CPLP executive secretary informed that the organization’s Permanent Secretariat has been exploring ways of working with the AC-CPLP, “since we share common themes, such as the fight against violence, exploitation of minors, the fight against child labour, relating to mobility, among others”.
Angola currently assumes the rotating presidency of the CPLP, created on 17 July 1996, in Lisbon, and made up of Brazil, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Equatorial Guinea, Portugal, Mozambique, São Tomé and Príncipe and East Timor.
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