Luanda - Angola's adhesion to the status of the Portuguese-speaking citizen status should be based on the implementation of rights and duties with other member states from the Community of Portuguese-speaking Countries (CPLP), thus safeguarding the national
interests of each country.

This view has been defended by the Angolan political analyst, Belarmino Van-Dúnem, in an interview to Angop, on the Status of Lusophone Citizen, discussed last week at the Second Parliamentary Assembly of CPLP in Lisbon, Portugal. 

  
According to the analyst, due to the importance attached to the status, which allows the citizen to take part in public life, the membership should be made only with analysis and bilateral agreements based on reciprocity among the member countries of the Portuguese-speaking community. 

 
He said that taking into account the long period the country endured, there is the need for greater engagement in the development of moral and material capacities in order to curb, by all appropriate means, any threat or external aggression.

CPLP groups Angola, Mozambique, Guinea Bissau, Sao Tome and Principe, Cape Verde, Brazil, Portugal and East Timor.