Luanda - The Prime Minister of Portugal, José Sócrates, left the Angolan capital back to his country after participating on Friday at the 8th Summit of the Portuguese-speaking Countries Community (CPLP ).

  
The CPLP Summit held at Talatona Convention Centre under the slogan Solidarity in Diversity, ended with the signing of the Declaration of Luanda.

The signatories of the Declaration were the Heads of State of Angola, Portugal, Mozambique, Cape Verde, Guinea Bissau and Sao Tome and Principe, a representative from Brazil and East Timor.

It also adopted the Action Plan of Brasilia for the promotion, dissemination and projection of the Portuguese language and the statements of tribute to the late poet Alda Espirito Santo, the speaker of the National Assembly of Sao Tome and Principe and first speaker of the Parliamentary Assembly of the CPLP, Francisco Silva, and the Nobel Prize of Literature, José Saramago.

 
The Summit also adopted a statement of solidarity to President Lula da Silva who was absent.

 
Mozambique will host the ninth summit to be held in 2012.

The CPLP groups Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, Guinea Bissau, Mozambique, Portugal, Sao Tome and Principe and Timor East. Equatorial Guinea, Mauritius and Senegal are observers.