Lisbon pledges continued support to Portuguese language teaching

Subject: LUSA: Lisbon pledges continued support to Portuguese language teaching

22-11-2002 17:27:00. Notícia nº 4370348...

East Timor: Lisbon pledges continued support to Portuguese language teaching

Lisbon, Nov. 22 (Lusa) - Portugal will continue to support the reconstruction East Timor, "particularly in the areas of education and the promulgation of the Portuguese language", a senior Lisbon official said Friday.

Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and Communities Antonio dos Santos was speaking after a meeting at the Lisbon Foreign Ministry with Francisco Guterres, speaker of the Dili parliament, who is visiting Portugal for his first time since his country's independence in May.

Dos Santos announced that the new Portuguese School in Dili will be inaugurated Dec. 4. Guterres had called Thursday for the boosting of efforts to teach Portuguese, one of Timor's two official languages, along with Tetum.

The majority of the Dili parliament's lawmakers have difficulties using Portuguese, Guterres had said.

MCL/CJB -Lusa-

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