Brazil will provide financial support of one million euros for the third edition of the audiovisual program of the Community of Portuguese Language Countries (CPLP), the Brazilian Minister of Culture announced Monday.
“It is a great pleasure to be here, taking up the effective actions of Brazil in the CPLP, and our presence in audiovisual initiatives, with a ‘contribution’ [financiamento] on the same scale as Portugal, to definitively affirm the return of the country to the strengthening of this community of Portuguese-speaking countries and many other things that we will do”, said Margareth Menezes, during a trip to the headquarters of the organization.
The minister stressed that with the government of Lula da Silva in Brazil it was possible in a short time to “rebuild the ministry and start carrying out international actions.”
“[É] too big for us. Especially since Brazilian culture has a very special place, internationally recognized, ”she underlined.
“We are going to promote all the possibilities of deployment of the arts, in literature, in the cinema, we are going to cooperate with the cinema, with documentaries, promoting even more and creating”, with Portugal and with the CPLP, he said.
The minister highlighted an idea that arose at that time, creating an organization to represent Lusophone culture, “a fair with all the CPLP countries for representation in other countries, especially in Mercosur.”
On what to do with the United Nations so that the Portuguese language becomes an official language of the organization, an aspect that was once again highlighted by the presidents of Portugal and Brazil, this Saturday after their meeting in Belém, Margareth Menezes said that she has still there was no conversation with the UN.
“But the actions we are taking are positive for the development of these collaborations, especially in relation to the Portuguese-speaking countries, because strengthening our language is strengthening democracy and strengthening the presence of the countries and that great history that our countries of Portuguese speaking for the strengthening of the world,” he stressed.
The minister was speaking after having inaugurated the “Paginário CPLP”, installed in front of the headquarters of the international organization, in Largo do Correio Mor, and having met with the executive secretary of the CPLP, Zacarias da Costa.
The CPLP Audiovisual Program aims to contribute to cultural exchange, increase mutual knowledge and implement integrated public policies to encourage the production and dissemination of audiovisual content in the CPLP countries.
Zacarias da Costa then explained to the Ministers of Culture of Portugal, Pedro Adão e Silva, and Brazil, that this support from Brazil is “very important” for the program, for which Portugal had already allocated “one million euros, Angola put 250,000 euros and Brazil has come today to announce another million, like Portugal”.
The Brazilian Minister of Culture is one of the members of the Brazilian Government that is part of the ministerial delegation that accompanies the President of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, on his four-day state visit to Portugal, which ends this Tuesday.
The Paginário inaugurated today by the Ministers of Culture of Portugal and Brazil is a work by the Brazilian artist and researcher Leonardo Villa-Forte and the result of an initiative of the Brazilian mission to the CPLP.
The mural celebrates, according to the artist, “the multiple centrality of the Portuguese language, its variety of expressions and nothing better than literature to do it, but also some letters and art”, the artist explained to Lusa.
In total there are 960 pages, occupying 25 meters “in honor of April 25,” he said. 35 people from the nine CPLP Member States were invited to submit pages of literature that well expressed their linguistic variation.
The pages of each country have the color of the flag of that State.
Source: TSF
