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Press Release
Meeting of the Council of Ministers on January 19th, 2022
The Council of Ministers met, at the Government Palace, in Dili, and approved the draft Government Resolution, presented by the Vice Prime Minister and Minister of Social Solidarity and Inclusion, Armanda Berta dos Santos, renewing the mandate of the members of the Board of Directors of the National Institute of Social Security (INSS – Portuguese acronym), for another three years. Thus, Longuinhos Armando S. I. Leto remains as Chairman of the Board of Directors of the INSS. Azevedo Marçal and Cornélio Barros remain as members of the Board of Directors. Alberto Carvalho de Araújo and Ramalho da Costa remain, respectively, as employers’ and employees’ representatives.
The Council of Ministers approved two draft Government Decrees, also presented by the Vice Prime Minister, which approve the remuneration of the presidents and sole auditors of the Institute for the Defence of the Rights of the Child, (Instituto para a Defesa dos Direitos da Criança I. P.) and of the National Institute for the Fight against HIV-AIDS (Instituto Nacional de Combate ao HIV-SIDA, I.P.), and the values of the attendance fees to be paid to the respective members of the Advisory Council. To determine the specific amounts of these remunerations, the Government has taken into consideration the values practised in Public Institutes. END