Portuguese Speaking Community Praises Support to Guinea Bissau

19 July 2011

Luanda — The executive secretary of the Portuguese Speaking Community (CPLP), Domingos Simões Pereira, praised the support extended by member states to Guinea Bissau, under the Angolan Military and Security Mission (Missang) to that country.

According to the CPLP official, the member countries have been managing to meet the expectations of the community.

Domingos Simões Pereira acknowledged this fact Tuesday while speaking to Angolan journalists, on the fringes of the focal point meeting for cooperation of the CPLP, taking place in Luanda.

The executive secretary of the Portuguese Speaking Community said that during the 16th ordinary meeting of the Council of Ministers of the CPLP, scheduled for July 22, the participants will assess all achievements so far in Guinea-Bissau.

He recalled that the 8th conference of heads of State and Government of CPLP, held in Luanda on July 23, 2010 approved a managing board to support Guinea-Bissau and create a favourable environment leading to the implementation of reforms in the sectors of defence and security.

To this purpose, the ongoing ministerial meeting is to assess what has been achieved.

On the other hand, the official said that the session of ministers is also to analyse the actions held by the CPLP since Angola took up the presidency of the organisation, in June 2010.

The process of adhesion of Equatorial Guinea to the Community, as well as the revision of a special fund to finance and promote real projects of development, are among the issues.

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