{"id":572,"date":"2007-10-22T14:47:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-22T14:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/acolop.net\/?p=572"},"modified":"2022-09-19T15:16:41","modified_gmt":"2022-09-19T15:16:41","slug":"acolop-na-reuniao-de-observadores-consultivos-da-cplp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acolop.net\/en\/2007\/10\/22\/acolop-at-the-cplp-consultative-observers-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"ACOLOP at the CPLP Consultative Observers meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manuel Silv\u00e9rio attended last Friday's meeting between the Consultative Observers of the Community of Portuguese Speaking Countries (CPLP) and the Executive Secretariat of that institution, which took place in Lisbon. He attended the meeting in his capacity as president of the Association of Portuguese-speaking Olympic Committees (ACOLOP). The meeting brought together several CPLP Consultative Observers at the Macau Scientific and Cultural Centre in Lisbon, a status that ACOLOP has held since July 2006 due to its work in the field of Lusophone sport. The meeting's agenda included topics related to increasing co-operation between the various Advisory Observers and their specific areas of action, increasing efficiency and the tools that could prove useful for greater communication. In addition to ACOLOP, representing the area of Lusophone Olympic Sport, the meeting was attended by various organisations that hold the status of CPLP Consultative Observers. In the area of health, the International Medical Assistance (AMI), the Portuguese Health Association, the Portuguese-speaking Medical Community and the International Disaster Paramedics were present. In the area of culture, the Association of Portuguese Language Universities, the Macau International Institute, the Luso-American Development Foundation, the Calouste Gulbenkian, Oriente, Oswaldo Cruz and Eduardo dos Santos Foundations were present, as well as the Inter-Country Commission\/Portuguese Speaking Countries\/St Paul's Rotarian Foundation and the Lusophone Reflection Circle. Also present were the Brazilian Historical and Geographical Institute, the Union of Portuguese Language Lawyers, the Union of Portuguese Miseric\u00f3rdias and the CPLP Youth Forum and Business Council, among others. The meeting was chaired by Ambassador Lu\u00eds Fonseca, Executive Secretary of the Community of Portuguese Speaking Countries. For Manuel Silv\u00e9rio, the meeting \"was an opportunity to deepen knowledge and exchange experiences\". He explained that \"ACOLOP has a well-defined mission, which has always been characterised by institutional cooperation, especially in the consultative area, as is the case here\". As a Consultative Observer of the CPLP, \"ACOLOP is first and foremost a technical partner in the sports field which, despite developing its own specific project, guided by its own objectives, shares ideas and is open to participating with the various players in the Lusophone world in a work of mutual consultation. Today's meeting proved and reinforced this. There is a great desire on the part of all the Lusophone institutions, and ACOLOP is one of them, to strengthen cooperation ties, since we all share common objectives. \"On behalf of the CPLP, Ambassador Lu\u00eds Fonseca, the organisation's Executive Secretary, pointed out that \"the meeting that took place with the consultative observers was important as it marked a meeting between all the partners of the CPLP and the Lusophone world.\" The Cape Verdean ambassador also pointed out that \"although the CPLP is an intergovernmental organisation, it depends very much on the work carried out by the organisations that work day-to-day with Lusophone civil society.\" Still on the subject of the meeting, Manuel Silv\u00e9rio emphasised the importance for ACOLOP of \"strengthening the good relationship that already exists with all the entities that work with the Portuguese language, an objective that, in order to be fulfilled, requires continuity of action\". The president added that, \"as everyone knows, ACOLOP is a private, non-governmental sports organisation\". However, he stressed, \"for the work of our Association to be successful, it is important to share experiences with other Lusophone organisations, from areas as diverse as the economy, health, culture and politics, since it is necessary to support and build relationships with all the players in ACOLOP's member countries and regions\". To this end, he emphasised that \"ACOLOP is open to studying other types of partnership with the CPLP and with all the Consultative Observers that involve developing and helping ACOLOP member Olympic Committees, even through the governments themselves, who are naturally interested partners in the development of sport as a structuring factor of a society\". Also during ACOLOP's speech, Silv\u00e9rio pointed out that after the 1st Lusophone Games were held in Macau in October 2006, and with the 2nd edition already being prepared to be held in Portugal (Lisbon) in 2009, it is ACOLOP's intention to carry out projects that allow for the development of sport within the Olympic Committees that are part of it and to strengthen the ties that unite us, as is the case with the OlympAfrica Centre in Boane, Mozambique and the Lusophone House in Beijing in 2008. During the meeting, it was also announced that the CPCLP is already developing a web portal exclusively dedicated to the Advisory Observers in order to strengthen the level of co-operation. According to Lu\u00eds Fonseca, \"this initiative aims to strengthen the level of communication between the various advisory bodies, bring them closer together by area of activity and stimulate co-operation on projects\". Created in Lisbon in 1996, at a summit of heads of state and government, the Community of Portuguese Language Countries is an organisation that resulted from the meeting of a group of states, which at the time included Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, Portugal and S\u00e3o Tom\u00e9 and Pr\u00edncipe, and six years later welcomed East Timor, after the country gained its independence. The CPLP is publicly recognised as a political project based on the Portuguese language, the official language common to the eight member states, and its general objectives are political consultation and cooperation in the social, cultural and economic fields. In the field of cooperation, the Consultative Observers are civil society organisations interested in the objectives pursued by the CPLP, specifically through their involvement in initiatives related to specific actions, namely cooperation in the fields of education, health, science and technology, defence, agriculture, public administration, communications, justice, public security, culture, the media and sport, as is the case with ACOLOP.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":573,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","neve_meta_reading_time":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-noticias"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acolop.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/acolop.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/acolop.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acolop.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acolop.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=572"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/acolop.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":574,"href":"https:\/\/acolop.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572\/revisions\/574"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acolop.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acolop.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acolop.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acolop.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}