Community of Portuguese-Speaking Countries

The Community of Portuguese-speaking countries was created during the summit of Heads of state and government of Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, Guinea Bissau, Mozambique, Portugal and St. Tome & Principe in 1996. Timor-Leste joined in 2002 upon its independence.

For more information, see the Wikipedia article "Community of Portuguese-Speaking Countries" or the IO's homepage at http://www.cplp.org.

[edit] Current Member States

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

Latest posts

• [3 November 2009] AllAfrica on "Mozambique: Renamo Former Guerrillas Threaten to Return to War" (Elections)
• [3 November 2009] BBC - Renamo rejects election results (Mozambique) (Elections)
• [26 June 2009] ICG Briefing on Guinea-Bissau, June 25, 2009. (Political instability)
• [18 March 2009] International Crisis Group on political instability in Guinea-Bissau (Elections, Political instability, Security Sector Reform)

Acronym: CPLP
Headquarters: Lisbon, Portugal Latitude: 38°42′25.787″N
Longitude: 9°8′7.861″W