NEW YORK, 23 september 2024 (TATOLI) – The Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation (MFAC), Bendito dos Santos Freitas, accompanied by the General Secretary of g7+, Helder da Costa, the General Director for Multilateral Affairs, Leoneto Mantilo, held a meeting with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Guinea Bissau, Carlos Pinto Pereira and took the opportunity to deliver the official invitation to the meeting of the Ministers of Foreign Affairs (MFA) of the g7+ Member States that will be held in April 2025 in Timor-Leste.
The Meeting of Ministers of Foreign Affairs will be held as part of the 15th Anniversary of the establishment of the Intergovernmental Organization of which Timor-Leste was the protagonist. (Pioneer).
Minister Bendito declared that Timor-Leste appreciated Guinea-Bissau’s active participation in g7+, and therefore invited it (Guinea-Bissau) to participate in the aforementioned meeting as a Member Country of the g7+ Intergovernmental Organization.
In this way, through the same meeting, the historical and diplomatic relationship between the two brotherly countries with a specific characteristic in the CPLP could be increasingly strengthened.
For now, the issues to be addressed at the aforementioned meeting will be about the State-building process and to share experience and challenges that Timor-Leste faced in the State-building process, in particular, in the multilateral cooperation mechanism through the g7+.
In 2019, g7+ obtained status as a United Nations observer. And in 2021, the UN officially recognized g7+ as an Intergovernmental Organization for Post-Conflict Countries and approved it as a Multilateral Organization.
The g7+ Intergovernmental Organization is made up of 20 Member States, namely Timor-Leste, Afghanistan, Burundi, Central African Republic, Chad, Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo, Giuné, Guinea-Bissau, Haiti, Liberia, Papua New Guinea, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Solomon Islands, São Tomé and Príncipe, South Sudan, Togo and Yemen.
Journalist: Hortencio Sanchez
Editor: Filomeno Martins
