Luanda – The President of the Republic, João Lourenço, held a separate meeting Friday afternoon with his counterparts from Guinea Bissau, Umaro Sissoco Embaló, and Namibia, Hage Heingob.
The Guinean and Namibian presidents are in the Angolan capital, Luanda, to attend the 13th Conference of Heads of State and Government of the Community of Portuguese-speaking Countries (CPLP), scheduled for Saturday.
Also today, João Lourenço received a message from his Mozambican counterpart, Felipe Niussi, delivered by the Prime Minister of Mozambique, Carlos Rosário, and another from the Prime Minister of East Timor, Taur Ruak, delivered by the deputy Prime Minister, José Morais dos Reis.
The Angolan president also received the president of the National People’s Assembly of Guinea-Bissau, Cipriano Cassamá, who holds the rotating presidency of the CPLP Parliamentary Forum.
The Angolan leader’s agenda also included audiences with the head of the UN Regional Office for Central Africa, François Louenceny, and the executive secretary of the Organisation of African, Caribbean and Pacific States (OACPS), Angolan Georges Rebelo Chikoty.
At the Luanda summit, during which Angola will take over the rotating presidency of the community for two years, replacing Cape Verde, the Convention on Mobility in the CPLP will be initialled.
The event is being held under the slogan, “Building and Strengthening a Common and Sustainable Future.
The member states of the CPLP, which on Saturday 17, completes 25 years since it was founded, are Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, Guinea Bissau, Equatorial Guinea, Mozambique, Sao Tome and Principe, East Timor and Portugal.
Source: Angola Press News Agency