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At the next conference of the Community of Portuguese-Speaking Countries (CPLP), which will take place on Tuesday and Wednesday in Santa Maria, island of Sal, Cape Verde, the participation of the heads of state of the nine countries
Meanwhile, Timorese President Francisco Guterres Lu-Olo has canceled his trip to Cape Verde because of the political crisis his country is undergoing after his refusal to set up a group of members of the new government led by Taur Matan Ruak
Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, of Portugal; João Lourenço, from Angola; Michel Temer, from Brazil; José Mário Vaz, from Guinea-Bissau; Teodoro Obiang, from Equatorial Guinea; Filipe Nyusi of Mozambique and Evaristo Carvalho of São Tomé and Príncipe are the confirmed presence at the top, as well as the Cape Verdean host Jorge Carlos Fonseca
Of the nine CPLP member states, only Portugal has always been represented by the President and the Prime Minister. It is customary for the delegations of the different countries to be led by only one of the highest representatives, whether they be presidents – active or temporary – prime ministers, heads of diplomacy or presidents of parliament
. The only exception to this rule is the representation at the level of the Presidency of the Republic and the Government: at Summit V, in Sao Tome and Principe, on July 23, 2004, Pedro Santana Lopes, then head of the executive Jorge Sampaio, as head of state, and António Guterres, as prime minister, participated in the first three meetings (Lisbon, 1996, Praia, 1996). 1998, Maputo, 2000)
At the 4th meeting (Brasilia, 2002), the Portuguese delegation consisted of Sampaio and then Prime Minister Barroso.
Cavaco Silva, as president, and José Sócrates, as prime minister, attended the summits of Bissau (2006), Lisbon (2008) and Luanda (2010).
The current president, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, and the current prime minister, António
In Maputo (2012) and Dili (2014), Cavaco Silva would already be accompanied by Pedro Pbados Coelho, Costa, made up of the national delegation to the Brasilia summit two years ago, will again represent Portugal at the Sal summit in the next two days.
The internal political crises motivated the absence of some heads of state throughout the history of the CPLP, such as São Tomé and Príncipe, who missed the sixth summit (Bissau, 2006), while Guinea-Bissau sent XI (Brasilia, 2016), the then head of diplomacy, Soares Sambu, for President José Mário Vaz to hold political consultations because of the crisis. internal.
Angola was represented at the VII Summit (Lisbon, 2008) by the then President of the National Assembly, Fernando Piedade Santos ("Nandó"), as the president of the At the time, José Eduardo dos Santos was preparing the elections.
Guinea-Bissau sent, in 2004 (Bissau) and in 2012 (Maputo), those who were, at the time, acting presidents – Henrique Rosa and Raimundo Pereira, respectively.
Dilma Rousseff, as President of Brazil, never participated in the CPLP summits
At the 9th Maputo Conference on July 20, 2012, the Brazilian delegation was reduced to the Vice President from then, Michel Temer, without the participation of the head of diplomacy of the time, António
In 2014, the summit of Dili was held on July 23, a little later than usually because Brazil hosted these dates. , the world football championship, but Dilma Rousseff invoked "agenda problems" and sent the deputy foreign minister of the time, Paulo Cordeiro de Andrade Pinto.
Since the establishment of the CPLP on July 17, 1996, all Presidents of the Member States have never been present at the biennial summits, simultaneously.
Presidents José Eduardo dos Santos (Angola), Fernando Henrique Cardoso (Brazil), António Mascarenhas Monteiro (Cape Verde), João Bernardo & nino & # 39; Vieira (Guinea-Bissau), Joaquim Chissano (Mozambique) and Jorge Sampaio (Portugal). Sao Tome and Principe was represented by Prime Minister Armindo Vaz de Almeida.
In the history of the CPLP summits, the presence of Xanana Gusmão at the Third Summit (Maputo, 2000) was also highlighted, but Timor-Leste would not become a full member of the organization. Lusophone that in 2002 at the meeting in Brasilia.
In 2004, the President of Equatorial Guinea, Teodoro Obiang Nguema, participated in the Sao Tome and Principe meeting at the invitation of the local authorities. The accession of Malabo to the CPLP will be formalized at the X Summit in Dili (Timor-Leste) in 2014.
Santa Maria, on the island of Sal, hosts the XII Conference of Chefs. State and Government of the CPLP, which marks the beginning of the Cape Verdean presidency of the organization, under the motto "Culture, people and oceans"
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