Minister Bendito Freitas and President Camões begin negotiations on a new cooperation plan between Timor-Leste and Portugal« Government of Timor-Leste

The Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, Bendito dos Santos Freitas, met on May 8, 2024, with Camões and the director of the Institute of Intellectual Property Cooperation and Languages, Ana Paula Fernández, to start negotiations on the Strategic Cooperation Program (PEC) between Timor-Leste and Portugal for the period 2024-2028.

At this meeting, the two sides discussed priority strategic areas for bilateral cooperation within the new Pacific Economic Cooperation Framework and reiterated the importance of expanding existing cooperation projects and incorporating new areas of activity.

The preparatory meeting comes ahead of separate meetings between the Camões mission and ministries, where sectoral political discussions will be deepened.

Chairman of the IP Office Camões also presented the statistics of the 2019-2023 PEC to the RDTL Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation and shared the conclusions and recommendations of the respective evaluation reports.

Also present at this meeting were Manuela Bairos, Ambassador of Portugal to Dili, Ricardo Vitória, Vice President of the Camões School of Cooperation and Languages ​​and Intellectual Property, Cristina Faustino, Cooperation Attaché of the Portuguese Embassy in Dili, and their respective technical teams for PEC negotiations.