The Chairman of the Board of the Lisbon City Foundation, Professor António Pedro de Nobre Carmona Rodrigues, and the Chair of the General Assembly, Dr Eugénio Anacoreta Correia, met with the Secretary-General of UCCLA, Dr Vitor Ramalho, on 18 July.
UCCLA was elected as the institution to coordinate the CPLP Consultative Observers’ Thematic Commission for the Promotion and Dissemination of the Portuguese Language for the 2021–2022 biennium. This meeting served to consolidate the Lisbon City Foundation’s expression of interest in joining the aforementioned commission.
UCCLA – Union of Portuguese-Speaking Capital Cities, was established on 28 June 1985 by Nuno Krus Abecassis, who was also the founder of the Lisbon City Foundation. Originally named the Union of Luso-Afro-Americo-Asian Capital Cities, “UCCLA aimed to recover and strengthen the bonds of solidarity that, over centuries, had been woven between its member cities, in order to allow for the structuring of a common effort towards the balanced development of them all,” as noted by Nuno Krus Abecassis in his work, Lisboa Minha Vida.
A precursor to the CPLP (Community of Portuguese Language Countries), it was the first public-private partnership institution dedicated to development cooperation within the Lusophone world.
