175th Meeting of the Standing Committee for Consultation
Representatives of each of the Member States of the CPLP constituting the Standing Committee for Consultation were today, July 21, in a meeting at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, in Dili, as part of the CPLP Summit in Timor-Leste.
The meeting, chaired by the Executive Secretary, Isaac Murade Murargy and Ambassador of Mozambique to CPLP, Faizal Fakir Cassam, also attended by the Director-General, Georgina Benrós de Mello, and the representatives of all the countries that are part this community.
Ambassador Faizal Fakir Cassam passed on the position of Coordinator of the Standing Committee to Ambassador Antonito de Araújo, Permanent Representative of Timor-Leste to CPLP, which country will assume the Rotating Presidency over the next two years.
The Standing Committee for Consultation monitors the compliance by the Executive Secretariat of the decisions and recommendations of the other organs of the CPLP. The Standing Committee for Consultation also monitors the actions undertaken by the International Portuguese Language Institute (IILP), ensuring their consistency with the overall policy of CPLP.
The Standing Committee for Consultation ordinarily meets once a month and, extraordinarily, whenever necessary.
On this 175th Meeting of the Standing Committee For Consultation, representatives of Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, Portugal, Sao Tome and Principe and Timor-Leste will analyse and review documents and proposals that will be submitted for consideration of the Ministers in the XXIX Annual Meeting of the Council of Ministers, which will take place on July 22 in the Noble Hall of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation.
