The next Council of Ministers of the CPLP will be held on July 17, 2025 in Guinea-Bissau, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Sao Tome announced this Friday following a meeting held in the capital of Sao Tome.
Portuguese Foreign Minister Paulo Rangel had already said he was “appropriately comfortable” with the idea of things going as agreed when Lusa asked him whether the political situation in Guinea-Bissau could lead to changes in what was agreed at the last summit.
On this occasion, it was established that after Sao Tome and Principe, the next successive President of the Community for the period 2025 to 2027 will be a representative of Guinea-Bissau, and the summits of heads of state and government will be held in the country that will take this position, but there was no confirmation from the ministers regarding the place and date, and the date of the preparatory meeting of the Council of Ministers was announced this Friday.
Guinea-Bissau President Sissoko Embalo assured during a visit to Portugal in October 2023 that his country was already “ready to assume the presidency,” but the country’s political situation has changed since then, which could cast doubt on the matter.
Sissoko Embalo called early legislative elections for November 24 after his decision in December 2023 to dissolve the parliament elected in June, accusing it of a serious institutional crisis in the country and an attempted coup.
The meeting on Friday was attended by the Ministers of Sao Tome and Principe, Gareth Guadalupe, who chaired, Tete António of Angola, Mauro Vieira of Brazil, Rui Figueiredo Soares of Cape Verde, Carlos Pinto Pereira of Guinea-Bissau, Paulo Rangel of Portugal and Bendito dos Santos Freitas of Timor-Leste, as well as, representing their countries, Oswaldo Joana, Ambassador of Mozambique to Angola and Sao Tome and Principe, and Tito Mba, Ambassador of the Republic of Equatorial Guinea to the CPLP.
Sao Tome, the country that chose “Youth and Sustainable Development” as the motto of its presidency, chaired this Council of Ministers, focusing on discussing the importance of academic mobility for young people and the role they can play in promoting economic growth and sustainable development.
The member states of the CPLP are Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Portugal, Mozambique, Sao Tome and Principe, Equatorial Guinea and Timor-Leste.
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
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