The government says there is “no process at stake or at stake” on the issue of reparations for the colonial past.

The government said this Saturday that “there has not been and does not exist any process or program of concrete action” on the issue of reparation to states and their people for the colonial past of the Portuguese state, according to a statement issued this Saturday.

“It is important to emphasize that the current government is following the same line as previous governments,” he says.

He also explains that “the relationship between the Portuguese people and all the inhabitants of the states that were former colonies of Portugal is truly excellent,” adding that it is based on “mutual respect and the sharing of a common history.”

The government states that through its sovereign bodies, such as the President of the Republic and the Government, “gestures and programs of cooperation have been undertaken aimed at the impartial and impartial recognition of historical truth.”

“The Portuguese state financed the Museum of the National Liberation Struggle in Angola; in Cape Verde, the museumization of the Tarrafal concentration camp; in Mozambique, the restoration of the slave ramp on the island of Mozambique,” ​​the official note says.

The statement also said that the line of the Portuguese government is and will always be “deepening relationships, respect for historical truth and increasingly intense and close cooperation based on the reconciliation of fraternal peoples.”

This Saturday, the President of the Republic said that Portugal must lead the process of accepting and eliminating the consequences of the period of colonialism, and proposed debt forgiveness, cooperation and financing as examples.

“I always thought an apology was the easy solution to a problem. I’m so sorry…it was never talked about again. You take responsibility for everything good and bad that happened in the empire. Coming out essentially means that,” he said.