Government prepares Chair of CPLP
The Minister of State and of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, José Luís Guterres, received, last January 31st, the Ambassador for Brazil in Díli, José Dornelles, along with the Second Level Minister, Eduardo Carvalho. The meeting followed the request from the Prime Minister Kay Rala Xanana Gusmão to the President of the Republic of Brazil, Dilma Rousseff, for the support in the preparation and holding of the Presidency of the Community of Portuguese Speaking Countries (CPLP). Therefore, the career diplomat and Second Level Minister, Eduardo Carvalho, was nominated to represent Brazil in the Preparation Committee for the Timorese Presidency of the CPLP.
“I am going to devote myself to helping the organizing committee. In my 34-year carrier, 15 were in the area of the Protocol”, ensures Eduardo Carvalho. The 57-year-old Brazilian diplomat, holds in his curriculum the organization of The United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), also known as “Rio 92”, several meetings of the Southern Common Market (SCM), the Conference of Intellectuals from Africa and the Diaspora (CIAD), held in 2006 in Salvador da Bahia, Brazil, and more recently, the Conference of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States’ (CLACS), held in Havana, Cuba.
The Minister José Luís Guterres thinks that, in order to ensure the success of Dili’s Summit, scheduled for next July, the protocol is a priority. “Political issues are a consequence of the process, but if there are gaps in logistics, all fails.” As for the Organization itself, the Timorese Minister doesn’t want “a CPLP of speeches, but one that further explores the economic aspect, namely in the private sector.”
The nomination of the FRETILIN’s president, Francisco Guterres “Lu-Olo”, to lead the Preparation Committee for the Timorese Presidency of the CPLP “is connected with our tradition in treating the opposition well, in benefit of the public interest”, concludes the Minister of State and of Foreign Affairs.
