{"id":217471,"date":"2022-12-07T20:15:59","date_gmt":"2022-12-07T14:45:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=217471"},"modified":"2022-12-07T20:15:59","modified_gmt":"2022-12-07T14:45:59","slug":"india-prioritises-engaging-lusophone-world-to-tap-potential","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/india-prioritises-engaging-lusophone-world-to-tap-potential\/","title":{"rendered":"India prioritises engaging Lusophone world to tap potential"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article <\/span><b>\u201cIndia prioritises engaging Lusophone world to tap potential\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in <\/span><b>Indian Express <\/b>on<b> 6th December 2022<\/b><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) in partnership with the Indian Council of Cultural Relations (ICCR) and the Government of Goa is organizing the International Lusophone Festival in Goa.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is the Lusophone world?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lusophones are peoples that speak Portuguese as a native or as a common second language and nations where Portuguese features prominently in society.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Lusophone world is spread over nine countries across four continents and Portuguese is the most widely-spoken language in the Southern Hemisphere.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is the Community of Portuguese Language Countries(CPLP)?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">CPLP is also known as the <\/span><b>Lusophone Commonwealth (Comunidade Lusofona).<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Founded in<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: It is a multilateral forum, founded in 1996 at the 1st CPLP Heads of State &amp; Government Summit in Lisbon.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Members: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The founding members were Angola, Brazil, Cabo Verde, Guinea Bissau, Mozambique, Portugal and Sao Tome e Principe; while Timor Leste and Equatorial Guinea joined later.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 These 9 Lusophone countries comprise approximately 300 million people on 4 different continents (Africa, Latin America, Asia and Europe).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>India and Lusophone countries:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Lusophone economies are among the fastest-growing in the world. India\u2019s trade with the Lusophone world has grown six-fold in the last decade.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 India joined the CPLP as an associate observer in July 2021. As part of India\u2019s engagement with CPLP, the Ministry of External Affairs celebrated World Portuguese Language Day in Delhi on 5 May 2022.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cIndia prioritises engaging Lusophone world to tap potential\u201d published in Indian Express on 6th December 2022 What is the News? The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) in partnership with the Indian Council of Cultural Relations (ICCR) and the Government of Goa is organizing the International Lusophone Festival&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/india-prioritises-engaging-lusophone-world-to-tap-potential\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">India prioritises engaging Lusophone world to tap potential<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,164,9],"tags":[10500],"class_list":["post-217471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-international-relations-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-indian-express","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":2,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1702757893},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217471\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}