The I Conference of Heads of State and Government of the CPLP ( pt, I Conferência de Chefes de Estado e de Governo da CPLP), commonly known as the 1st CPLP Summit (''I Cimeira da CPLP'') was the 1st biennial meeting of heads of state and heads of government of the

Community of Portuguese Language Countries The Community of Portuguese Language Countries ( Portuguese: ''Comunidade dos Países de Língua Portuguesa''; abbreviated as the CPLP), also known as the Lusophone Commonwealth (''Comunidade Lusófona''), is an international organization and pol ...

, held at the

Jerónimos Monastery The Jerónimos Monastery or Hieronymites Monastery ( pt, Mosteiro dos Jerónimos, ) is a former monastery of the Order of Saint Jerome near the Tagus river in the parish of Belém, in the Lisbon Municipality, Portugal. It became the necropolis ...

in Lisbon,

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, on 17 July 1996.

Outcome

This summit formally created the

, also known as the Lusophone Commonwealth, after two years of multilateral negotiations and planning to create an

intergovernmental organization Globalization Globalization, or globalisation (English in the Commonwealth of Nations, Commonwealth English; American and British English spelling differences#-ise, -ize (-isation, -ization), see spelling differences), is the process of ...

around the community of countries with

Portuguese Portuguese may refer to: * anything of, from, or related to the country and nation of Portugal ** Portuguese cuisine, traditional foods ** Portuguese language, a Romance language *** Portuguese dialects, variants of the Portuguese language ** Portu ...

as its official language.Sol - A CPLP e o Sucesso da Lusofonia
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Executive Secretary

Marcolino Moco, former

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, was elected to serve as the inaugural

Executive Secretary of the Community of Portuguese Language Countries The Executive Secretary of the Community of Portuguese Language Countries ( pt, Secretário Executivo da Comunidade dos Países de Língua Portuguesa) is the executive head and highest representative of the Community of Portuguese Language Count ...

References

External links

CPLP Summits official site
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