The VIII Conference of Heads of State and Government of the CPLP (), commonly known as the 8th CPLP Summit (''V Cimeira da CPLP'') was the 8th biennial meeting of heads of state and heads of government of the

Community of Portuguese Language Countries The Community of Portuguese Language Countries (; : CPLP), also known as the Lusophone Commonwealth or Lusophone Community (), is an international organization and political association of Lusophone nations across four continents, where Portug ...

, held in

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Angola Angola, officially the Republic of Angola, is a country on the west-Central Africa, central coast of Southern Africa. It is the second-largest Portuguese-speaking world, Portuguese-speaking (Lusophone) country in both total area and List of c ...

, on 23 July 2010.VIII Conferência de Chefes de Estado e de Governo da CPLP
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Outcome

The theme of the 8th CPLP Summit was "Solidarity in Diversity in the Space of the CPLP", centered on the importance of defense cooperation and the promotion of the

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Executive Secretary

Domingos Simões Pereira Domingos Simões Pereira (born 20 October 1963) is a Guinea-Bissau, Bissau-Guinean politician who was Prime Minister of Guinea-Bissau from 2014 to August 2015. He previously served as Executive Secretary of the Community of Portuguese Language Co ...

, former Prime Minister of Guinea-Bissau, was elected as the Executive Secretary of the Community of Portuguese Language Countries, succeeding Cabo Verdian diplomat Luís de Matos Monteiro da Fonseca in the position.

References

External links

CPLP Summits official site
{{CPLP CPLP Summits Luanda Foreign relations of Angola