President of the Republic Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa will travel this Wednesday to the Dominican Republic, where he will pay an official visit on Thursday before attending the 28th Ibero-American Summit of Heads of State and Government.
The program of this one-day official visit, centered in the capital of Santo Domingo, begins with a meeting between Marcelo Rebelo de Souza and the President of the Dominican Republic, Luis Abinader, at the Presidential Palace.
The head of state will also be received by President of the Senate Eduardo Estrella at the National Congress, where he will speak.
According to a note published on the official website of the President of the Republic on the Internet, Marcelo Rebelo de Souza will also have the opportunity to meet with the Portuguese community and representatives of national companies present in the Dominican Republic.
The 28th Ibero-American Summit of Heads of State and Government will take place from Friday to Saturday in Santo Domingo under the motto “Together for a Just and Sustainable Ibero-America”. Portugal will be represented by President of the Republic Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa and Prime Minister António Costa.
Former President of the Republic Jorge Sampaio was in the Dominican Republic in November 2002 to attend the 12th Ibero-American Summit in Bavaro, in the tourist area of Punta Cana, along with then Prime Minister José Manuel Duran Barroso. .
Mario Soares also spent time in the Dominican Republic as head of state, where he held political meetings in June 1994 on his way to Portugal, on his way back from the 4th Ibero-American Summit in Colombia to Cartagena de Indias. .
The Ibero-American community consists of 22 countries, of which three are European, Portugal, Spain and Andorra, and 19 are Latin American: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela, Mexico, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Cuba and the Dominican Republic.
The first summit of this community was held in 1991 in Guadalajara, Mexico. Meetings of heads of state and government were held annually until 2014. Since then they have only been held every two years.
This will be Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa’s fourth participation in the Ibero-American summits after those held in Colombia in 2016, Guatemala in 2018 and Andorra in 2021.
Author: Portuguese
Source: CM Jornal
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