The Brazilian president’s proposal arose this Sunday during the restricted session of the XIV summit, at a time when the heads of state and government approved the resolutions.
The Brazilian president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, defended this Sunday, at the summit in Sao Tome, that the Community of Portuguese-Speaking Countries (CPLP) propose that Portuguese be the official language of the United Nations.
The Brazilian president’s proposal arose this Sunday during the restricted session of the XIV summit, at a time when the heads of state and government approved the resolutions.
“We have to take advantage of the fact that we have a Secretary General of the United Nations who speaks Portuguese [o ex-primeiro-ministro português António Guterres] and I believe that we must present information and a request to the United Nations so that the Portuguese language becomes an official language of the United Nations”, proposed Lula da Silva, receiving applause from those present.
The President of Santo Tomé, Carlos Vila Nova, who today assumed the rotating presidency of the CPLP and directed the work of the summit, responded: “Very well, President Lula, you are registered, we will continue this work and surely we will have achieved our goal.”
The CPLP, which includes Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Equatorial Guinea, Mozambique, Portugal, Sao Tome and Principe and East Timor, is holding today the 14th conference of Heads of State and Government, in Sao Tome and Principe, under the motto “Youth and Sustainability”.
Source: Observadora
