President of the Republic Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa will hold a working lunch in Belém on Monday with Chinese Vice President Han Zheng, where bilateral relations and issues related to international relations will be on the agenda.
According to the announcement released by the President of the Republic, Han Zheng has been visiting Portugal since Sunday, where he will stay until Wednesday.
“The working lunch will be aimed at further deepening the excellent relations between the two countries, a moment when issues of the bilateral agenda between the People’s Republic of China and Portugal, as well as issues related to international current affairs, will be analyzed and developed together,” the same note says. .
On Saturday evening, after visiting the Food Bank Against Hunger (BA) in Alcantara, Lisbon, the President of the Republic touched upon diplomatic relations with China in the current world situation.
Highlighting Portugal’s alignment with NATO and the European Union’s security positions, Marcelo Rebelo de Souza spoke of “countries that have a more distant position, but are no less concerned about the situation in Ukraine, as in the case of Brazil.” from China”.
“The vice-president of the People’s Republic of China is coming to Portugal. Now China has taken a more active role on this issue, and Portugal is an important forum for dialogue. Naturally, we are where we are, we are allies of Ukraine, we are allies of NATO and the European Union, but we maintain a dialogue with everything that can help build peace in the next moment, in the long term,” he stressed.
On April 19, the President of the Republic received the Chief Executive of the Macau Special Administrative Region, Ho Iat Seng, in Belen, where he dealt with the law agreed with China in 1999 and the teaching of the Portuguese language.
Prior to the covid-19 pandemic, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa made a state visit to the People’s Republic of China between April and May 2019 that began in Beijing, passed through Shanghai, and ended in the Macau Special Administrative Region.
In Macau, the Head of State reiterated the message that the Special Administrative Region’s “differentiation” lies in what gives it value, emphasizing the importance of the presence of the Portuguese language.
The President of the Republic mentioned that the Portuguese language is now more widely spoken in Macau than during the Portuguese administration and expressed confidence that it will remain after 2049.
At the end of his three-day visit to the People’s Republic of China, at a press conference today, he said that he was “very pleased” with the way everything went and stressed the growth to the “maximum degree of political relations.”
The head of state then dwelled on a memorandum of understanding establishing a new level of bilateral political relations: “The highest possible degree of political relations has been achieved at the level of the United States of America, the United Kingdom, France and Germany, political partners in a dialogue that goes beyond a mere strategic partnership.”
Author: Portuguese
Source: CM Jornal
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