The President of the Republic, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, and the Prime Minister, António Costa, will be together this Friday at the opening of the 28th Ibero-American Summit of Heads of State and Government, in Santo Domingo.
The head of state has been in the capital of the Dominican Republic since Wednesday night, where on Thursday he made a one-day official visit, accompanied by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, João Gomes Cravinho.
The Prime Minister is traveling to Santo Domingo today, coming from Brussels.
The opening ceremony of the 28th Ibero-American Summit, whose motto is “Together for a fair and sustainable Ibero-America”, is scheduled for 7:00 p.m. local time (11:00 p.m. in mainland Portugal).
Earlier, the President of the Republic will intervene in the closure of an Ibero-American business meeting.
The Santo Domingo summit will be the first with a fully face-to-face format since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, which led to the previous meeting, scheduled for 2020, in Andorra, being held only in 2021, with a modality hybrid format.
The sessions with interventions by the Heads of State and Government, in which Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa and António Costa will intervene, will take place on Saturday.
The Ibero-American community is made up of 22 countries, of which three are European, Portugal, Spain and Andorra, and 19 Latin American: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela, Mexico, Costa Rica , El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Cuba and the Dominican Republic.
The first summit of this community was held in 1991, in Guadalajara, Mexico. The meetings of Heads of State and Government were held annually until 2014. Since then, they have been held every two years.
As a general rule, Portugal has been jointly represented at Ibero-American summits by the Heads of State and Government.
The Prime Minister, António Costa, and the President of the Republic, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, were together and both made their debut in these meetings in October 2016, at the summit in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia.
In November 2018, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa participated in the 26th Ibero-American Summit, in the historic city of Antigua, Guatemala.
In April 2021, the President of the Republic and the Prime Minister attended the 27th Ibero-American Summit, in Andorra la Vella, Andorra, marked by the Covid-19 pandemic.
Source: TSF
