Community of Portuguese Language Countries

The Community of Portuguese Speaking Countries (Portuguese: Comunidade dos Países de Língua Portuguesa or CPLP ) is a multilateral forum for friendship and cooperation among the Portuguese-speaking countries. The Member States are Portugal and former Portuguese colonies. In all Member States, Portuguese is the official language.

Prehistory

Already in August 1965 Portugal's former dictator António de Oliveira Salazar Brazil had proposed the formation of a community " for the seizure and defense of the national heritage ." This community, which should also belong to Portugal's colonies, should have played the role of a great power in the South Atlantic. But Brazil was based more on the U.S. and the Portuguese colonies were in rebellion. Only Adhemar de Barros Perreira, the governor of the most populous state of Sao Paulo, warmed to the idea and beat Portugal in January 1966 the formation of a " Luso- Brazilian federation of states" before. Portuguese capital should stop the Brazilian inflation and be invested in the development of Brazilian resources, Brazil, Portugal should this help with the assertion of the colonies and the fight against communism. In the same year but de Barros was discontinued, only a Portuguese -Brazilian agreement on scientific and technical cooperation in 1966 completed.

Even during the Portuguese Carnation Revolution of 1974 sought Portuguese President António de Spinola, the lost colonial war in Africa ended by the transformation of the colonial empire in a plurikontinentale Luso- Brazilian- African Federation and the African peoples to be able to turn them from their demand for full independence.

It was not until 1983, long after the Carnation Revolution, which brought the independence of the African colonies, the ratio normalized to Portugal 's former colonies and the first proposals of a Lusophone cooperation were discussed. 1986, the 1966 cooperation agreement concluded between Brazil and Portugal was extended.

Members

  • Angola Angola
  • Brazil Brazil
  • Guinea- Bissau Guinea- Bissau
  • Cape Verde Cape Verde
  • Mozambique Mozambique
  • Portugal
  • Sao Tome and Principe Sao Tome and Principe
  • East Timor East Timor

The CPLP was established in 1996 by the seven countries of Angola, Brazil, Guinea- Bissau, Cape Verde, Mozambique, Portugal and São Tomé and Príncipe. After independence from Indonesia in 2002 also East Timor joined the community. July 13, 2007 Equatorial Guinea has adopted Portuguese as an official language, in order to join in quite some time also can.

The Member States have together more than 223 million people and cover an area of ​​10,742,000 km ², which is slightly larger than the U.S. or Canada.

Observer status

  • Equatorial Guinea Equatorial Guinea
  • Mauritius Mauritius
  • Senegal Senegal
  • Macau Macau, China (pending)

In some former colonies of Portugal emerged creoles that emerged from the Portuguese. Since 2006, Equatorial Guinea and Mauritius have held the status of an associated observer since 2008, Senegal. Also Macau aims to this.

Macau was a Portuguese overseas province until 1999 and today is a Portuguese official language. Since Macau is now a Special Administrative Region of China, the People's Republic in 2006 asked for observer status.

The Community

The Community is currently under construction, because it is an organization of countries who know very little of each other and "only" are connected by a common language, whereas long distances and cultural differences, the eight states that are on different continents separate. In practice, however, there is no common institutions and the Community budget is only symbolic.

Since its inception, the CPLP has helped in Guinea- Bissau and São Tomé and Príncipe in overcoming internal crises by coups and has supported the introduction of political and economic reforms. Any further proposed by the Cape Verde Islands Community citizenship was however of Portugal ( indirectly also of Brazil) rejected for the time being.

The CPLP is based in Lisbon, where a Secretary General is elected every two years. Secretary-General from 2008 to 2012 was Domingos Simões Pereira from Guinea- Bissau. His successor is Murade Isaac Miguigy Murargy from Mozambique. The necessary funds presents mostly the eight Member States. At the headquarters of the Community with its own ambassadors already Brazil, Guinea- Bissau and Portugal represented. East Timor has announced the deployment of an ambassador for the CPLP.

Although portugiesischsprachig Mozambique stepped up to the CPLP at the same time also the Commonwealth of Nations.

List of Secretaries General

Candidates for membership

Since the Galician language as the Portuguese language has its origins in the Galician - Portuguese language, there are in Galicia join efforts of the CPLP.

East Timor President Jose Ramos -Horta called in November 2008 to join Indonesia to the community a good idea. The country went through the colonial relationship with Portugal. Also, thousands of Portuguese loanwords in Bahasa Indonesia are available. Also joining Malaysia Ramos -Horta could imagine due to the history of Malacca.

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