Lisbon, Nov. 14, 2024 (Lusa) - Portugal's prime minister, Luís Montenegro, is to travel to Brazil next week to take part in the G20 summit being held in Rio de Janeiro, as well as meeting with the Portuguese communities in the city and in São Paulo.
According to the programme released on Wednesday evening, Montenegro will arrive in Rio on Monday morning, the first day of the G20 Summit of Heads of State and Government begins, in which Portugal is participating as the guest country of Brazil, which currently holds the presidency of this international forum of the world's largest economies.
Accompanied by the minister of state and foreign affairs, Paulo Rangel, the prime minister is to take part in the launch of the Global Alliance against Hunger and Poverty, an initiative led by Brazil within the framework of the G20, which Portugal is joining as a founding member.
The initiative, which is open to all countries, seeks to coordinate technical and financial partnerships to support the implementation of national programmes in the countries that join it, and the financing of public policies to eradicate hunger and poverty in the world.
This will be followed by the first G20 working session - also dedicated to ‘Social Inclusion and the Fight Against Hunger and Poverty’ - in which the countries of the new alliance will speak, including Portugal's prime minister.
In the afternoon, Montenegro is to take part in the second working session of the summit, to be centred on the reform of global governance institutions. He also has several bilateral meetings planned, before attending a reception for the heads of state and government present, hosted by the president of Brazil, Luís Inácio Lula da Silva.
On Tuesday, Montenegro is to take part in the third and final working session of the meeting of heads of state and government, on sustainable development and energy transition, before the Brazilian presidency presents the summit's conclusions and hands over to South Africa, the next holder.
In the afternoon, Montenegro is to visit the Real Gabinete Português de Leitura (Royal Portuguese Reading Office), a regular venue for visits by heads of government and state from Portugal, there he is to present copies of the complete works of Eduardo Lourenço, a leading Portuguese essayist, published by the Lisbon-based Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.
The Real Gabinete Português de Leitura is a library created in the 19th century by a group of Portuguese living in Brazil, housed in a neo-Manueline style building in the centre of Rio de Janeiro.
Montenegro is then to host a reception for the Portuguese community at Portugal's consulate general in Rio, the Palácio de São Clemente.
On Wednesday morning, the prime minister is to travel to São Paulo, where he has a lunch scheduled with the Portuguese community at the Casa de Portugal, followed by a visit to the Portuguese Language Museum, which opened in 2006 but was closed between 2015 and 2021 due to a serious fire.
Montenegro is to give the museum the three volumes of the complete works of Luís de Camões, Portugal's national poet, an edition prepared by Maria Vitalina Leal de Matos, in the year that marks the 500th anniversary of his birth.
This is the last stop on the prime minister's trip to Brazil, as he is to return to Lisbon on Thursday, 21 November.
This year, Portugal has taken part at Brazil's invitation in more than 100 meetings of the G20, at ministerial and technical level, culminating in this summit of heads of state and government in Rio de Janeiro.
On 1 December 2023, and until 30 November this year, Brazil took over the presidency of the G20 for the first time under the theme ‘Building a Just World and a Sustainable Planet’. During its presidency it invited as guests 19 countries, including Portugal, Angola, Mozambique and Spain, and organisations such as the Community of Portuguese Language Countries (CPLP).
The members of the G20 - the US, China, Germany, Russia, the UK, France, Japan, Italy, India, Brazil, South Africa, Saudi Arabia, Argentina, Australia, Canada, South Korea, Indonesia, Mexico, Turkey, as well as the European Union and the African Union - represent the largest economies, account for around 85% of the world's gross domestic product, more than 75% of world trade, and around two thirds of the world's population.
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