Community of Portuguese Speaking Countries
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Comunidade dos
Países de Língua Portuguesa Community of Portuguese Language Countries |
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A map of member states of the CPLP (dark blue), associate members (light blue), and officially interested parties (yellow)
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| Headquarters |
Palace of the Counts of Penafiel Lisbon, Portugal 38°42.65′N 9°8.05′W / 38.71083°N 9.13417°W |
| Official language | Portuguese |
| Membership |
9 Member States
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| Leaders | |
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• Executive Secretary
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 Maria do Carmo Silveira |
| Establishment | July 17, 1996 |
| Population | |
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• Estimate
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~ 266 million |
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Website
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The Community of Portuguese Language Countries (Portuguese: Comunidade dos Países de Língua Portuguesa; abbreviated as CPLP), occasionally known in English as the Lusophone Commonwealth, is an intergovernmental organization of Lusophone nations across four continents, where Portuguese is an official language, mostly of former colonies of the Portuguese Empire. The CPLP operates as a privileged multilateral forum for the mutual cooperation of the governments of its members, on both executive and ministerial levels, non-governmental organizations, and the various branches of the CPLP itself.
CPLP is a multilateral forum created to deepen mutual friendship and cooperation among its member states.
Through successive enlargements, the Union has grown from the seven founding states—Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, Portugal, and São Tomé and Príncipe—to the current nine, with the self-determination of Timor-Leste in 2002 and the accession of Equatorial Guinea in 2014 at the 10th summit in Dili, Timor-Leste with the issuance of the Dili Declaration. The community is growing from a cultural background to a geopolitical and economical community, as the CPLP is the fourth largest producer of oil in the world and the growing number of larger nations attempting to enter the organization, such as Turkey and Indonesia. In 2016, CPLP revised its cooperation protocol in defense, affirming the organization in the promotion of peace and security. In 2017, in Brasilia, the nine member states agreed to enlarge cooperation in matters of the seas, tourism, economy and a more ambitious defense and cooperation mechanisms. More rights to the observer states was also approved, which Argentina planned to join. Easing citizens cross-border movement between the member states was also proposed. This propose by Portugal and Cape Verde towards Brazil was thought by some to collide with Europe's Schengen area. However, this free movement is based in a different model: as residence permits, associated with the recognition of academic degrees and professional qualification, maintenance of social rights including pension systems.
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