Portugal is available to convert member states’ debts into support for the environmental transition, similar to what is happening with Cape Verde, the Portuguese prime minister said at the Community of Lusophone Countries (CPLP) summit on Sunday.
Speaking at the closed session of the 14th conference of the Portuguese-speaking organization, taking place today in São Tomé, António Costa said that Portugal is available to “work with each of the CPLP member states to convert the debt also into an investment”. in the fields of the environment, energy, water and recycling, to accelerate this transition”.
The premise of this proposal is to work “based on a pilot project” that Portugal has started with Cape Verde: the “establishment of the Climate and Environment Fund”, which will be formally approved by Praia in October, the minister said.
In this project, “Portugal committed to transform Cape Verde’s debts into investments in environmental transformation”.
The issue of the oceans should be the main priority at a first level in the question of the sustainability of the CPLP during the mandate of Sao Tome and Principe, followed later by the related economic issues, “agriculture and fisheries” and “this must be a be another dimension of a major challenge”.
In his speech, António Costa addressed the mobility agreement, which has been in force since the beginning of this year, and admitted that “a greater effort is needed to continue to remove the barriers”.
In the Portuguese case, “last week the general social security agreement was published, which is another part of the mobility agreement to guarantee the social security rights of all our states,” illustrated the minister, who also praised Malabo’s efforts in their integration process in the organization.
“There is a rapprochement we have with Equatorial Guinea where we would like to underline here the entry into force of the law that abolished the death penalty in Equatorial Guinea.he said, in reference to the CPLP’s most recent country.
The CPLP, which consists of Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Equatorial Guinea, Mozambique, Portugal, Sao Tome and Principe and East Timor, today holds the 14th Conference of Heads of State and Government in Sao Tome and Principe. under the motto “Youth and Sustainability”.
Source: DN
